D Pathak

Imagery rehearsal treatment of chronic nightmares: with a thirty month follow-up.

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry December 1, 1993 Barry Krakow, Robert Kellner, J Neidhardt et al.

Nightmare frequency and self-rated distress were assessed retrospectively in two groups of chronic nightmare sufferers 30 months after treatment. In the initial phase, the image group (N = 9) learned a cognitive-behavioral technique (imagery rehearsal) for the treatment of nightmares. They were taught in one group session to: (1) record a nightmare; (2) change it (usually to something...