Long Term Reduction of Nightmares with Imagery Rehearsal Treatment
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
- Vol. 24 (2) , 135-148
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1352465800017409
Abstract
An eighteen month follow-up of chronic nightmare sufferers treated with imagery rehearsal, a cognitive-behavioral method, demonstrated significant and clinically meaningful decreases in nightmare frequency. Sixty-eight percent of subjects decreased their nightmares below criteria for a “Chronic Nightmare Disorder”. Significant improvement was also noted for sleep quality and daytime anxiety. The findings support the theory that nightmares may be clinically conceptualized as a primary sleep disorder in some chronic sufferers.Keywords
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