Combat-related PTSD nightmares and imagery rehearsal: nightmare characteristics and relation to treatment outcome.
Journal of Traumatic Stress October 1, 2012 Gerlinde C. Harb, Richard Thompson, Richard J Ross et al.
The characteristics of nightmares of 48 male U.S. Vietnam war veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as revised dream scripts developed in the course of Imagery Rehearsal therapy, were examined in relation to pretreatment symptomatology and treatment outcome. Features, content, and themes of nightmares and rescripted dreams were coded by 2 independent raters....