Nightmares and bad dreams in patients with borderline personality disorder: Fantasy as a coping skill?
Péter Simor, Szilvia Csóka, Róbert Bódizs
The European Journal of Psychiatry March 1, 2010 DOI: 10.4321/s0213-61632010000100004 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational cohort Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) |
| Topics | Dreaming |
| Citations | 35 |
| Key findings | The study aimed to replicate previous findings of high nightmare prevalence and dream anxiety in BPD using dream logs, and to examine associations with emotional instability and protective factors. Specific results are not detailed in the abstract. |
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Previous studies reported a high prevalence of nightmares and dream anxiety in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the severity of dream disturbances correlated with daytime symptoms of psychopathology. However, the majority of these results are based on retrospective questionnaire-based study designs, and hence the effect of recall biases (characteristic for BPD), could not be controlled. Therefore our aim was to replicate these findings using dream logs. Moreover, we aimed to examine the level of dream disturbances in connection with measures of emotional instability, and to explore the protective factors against dream disturbances.