Behavioral Sleep Medicine
January 15, 2025
Kristi E. Pruiksma, Katherine E Miller, Joanne L. Davis et al.
16 citations
OBJECTIVES: Research supports cognitive behavioral therapies for nightmares (CBT-N) in adults. However, the nuances of implementation and unstandardized nomenclature for treatment components has created confusion in the field. To provide clarification, an expert consensus panel convened to review treatment manual components and to develop guidelines for the standardized implementation and...
Dreaming : journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams
June 1, 2021
Katherine E Miller, Richard J Ross, Gerlinde C. Harb
A previous study in military veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and recurrent nightmares found a high prevalence of lucid dreaming (LD), the awareness while a dream continues that one is dreaming, and an "LD profile" characterized by frequent dream awareness and rare dream content control. Given the importance of the nightmare disturbance in PTSD, this study assessed with...
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....
Military Medicine
June 1, 2011
Joshua Z. Rosenthal, Sarina Grosswald, Richard J Ross et al.
98 citations
We conducted an uncontrolled pilot study to determine whether transcendental meditation (TM) might be helpful in treating veterans from Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Five veterans were trained in the technique and followed for 12 weeks. All subjects improved on the primary outcome measure, the Clinician...
Journal of Traumatic Stress
October 1, 2010
Joan M. Cook, Gerlinde C. Harb, Philip R. Gehrman et al.
AbstractOne hundred twenty‐four male Vietnam War veterans with chronic, severe posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were randomly assigned to imagery rehearsal (n = 61) or a credible active comparison condition (n = 63) for the treatment of combat‐related nightmares. There was pre‐post change in overall sleep quality and PTSD symptoms for both groups, but not in nightmare frequency....