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R D Cartwright

2 papers in the library · publishing 1984-2000

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Affect and cognition in dreams: a critique of the cognitive role in adaptive dream functioning and support for associative models.

Psychiatry 2000 P T Newell, R D Cartwright

Dream affect and cognition are examined in a 4-month longitudinal study of depressed, recently divorced subjects. Several measures of cognition in dream reports were used to determine whether remitting subjects were more likely to utilize certain cognitive strategies than nonremitters. No differences were found in the cognition between those who were remitting and nonremitting subjects. Levels...

DOI: 10.1080/00332747.2000.11024892 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Humans Polysomnography Longitudinal studies Adaptation, psychological +9

Dream dimension differences during a life change.

Psychiatry Research May 1, 1984 I Trenholme, R D Cartwright, G Greenberg

Dreams reported from laboratory awakening of stably married women differed from those of women undergoing divorce: The former dreamed of the experiment; the latter had more threat themes. Those coping well during the divorce had more positive motives in the last dream than those who were depressed. Dreams of the nondepressed divorcées increased in anxiety from first to last dream report,...