P T Newell

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...