Distressing dreams in trauma survivors: using a sleep diary mobile app to reveal distressing dream characteristics and their relationship to symptoms and suicidal ideation in trauma-exposed adults
SLEEP Advances 2025 Anne Richards, Anthony Santistevan, Miles Kovnick et al. 8 citations
Study Objectives: Trauma nightmares are a core feature of PTSD, with potentially devastating implications for mental health outcomes. Treatments remain unsatisfactory and nightmares are poorly understood, both biologically and phenomenologically; measurement methods are limited. The aims of the current analyses were to (1) characterize distressing dreams in trauma survivors, (2) examine the...
DOI: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpae099 (opens in new tab)
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Nightmare
Suicidal ideation
Dream
Clinical psychology
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