March 25, 2026Anna-Marie Ragaller, Lea Teresa Kaubisch, Corinna Reck et al.
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ObjectiveDreams are thought to reflect children's and adolescents' inner psychological processes. Despite their central role in clinical theories, their practical application and empirical grounding vary across psychotherapeutic approaches. This review systematically evaluates empirical evidence on working with dreams in child and adolescent psychotherapy.MethodThe EBSCO (MEDLINE, PsycINFO,...
This artistic, practice-led research explores the potential of generative AI to reinterpret and visually communicate Persian Spiritual Wisdom and its storytelling traditions within a contemporary, AI-driven short film. The central inquiry asks how AI technologies can serve as visual tools for producing symbolic, culturally grounded imagery that enriches narrative structures (McCormack et al.,...
William Butler Yeats is one of the literary pillars of twentieth century modernism. He was interested in the mystical and mythical elements of the dominant cultures of the world. Accordingly, he interpreted history in a context that broadly negotiated with magic, the occult, theosophy, alchemy, astrology, mythology, mysticism, and religion. He was not attracted to any specific culture, even...
This paper introduces the “Desired Dream” practice, an innovative psychotherapy approach based on narrative therapy. It involves conversations about dream content that individuals want to see and imagine, as distinct from dreams that occur spontaneously during sleep. The practice was designed to be used with people affected by the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye. It may be of use when working with...
This study examines the relationship between déjà vu in modern psychology and ru’yā ṣādiqah in the Qur’an as forms of anticipatory inner experience that appear to precede real events. The research aims to identify points of convergence at the level of human experience while critically distinguishing their epistemological foundations. A qualitative interdisciplinary design was employed,...
After fourteen years of wandering across Asia, Alexandra David-Neel became the first Western woman to enter the forbidden city of Lhasa in 1924. To get there, the explorer passed herself off as an old Tibetan beggar, a metamorphosis that was not only physical but also spiritual, marking her identity and enabling her to transcend cultural boundaries. The body certainly affects the mind by...
Distressing dreams were previously reported to predict future all‐cause dementia among predominantly white US participants aged 79–89 years, particularly in men. We investigated whether disturbing dreams (nightmares and bad dreams) were associated with all‐cause and Alzheimer dementia (AD) among individuals aged 60–89 years from diverse international regions.
This preprint was submitted on 31 March 2026. The author confirms that the research content is authentic, accurate, and reliable. The author takes all legal and academic responsibility for content presented in this work.This paper presents a first-person qualitative case study of an individual with extraordinarily high dream recall frequency, sustained high‑narrative dreaming, and unconscious...
Consciousness can persist, transform, and dissolve across wakefulness, sleep, and advanced meditation. Despite empirical and theoretical advances within each domain, these states are rarely examined within an integrated scientific framework. An interdisciplinary perspective reveals converging phenomena that challenge binary accounts of consciousness and highlight its graded, dynamic, and...
Abstract The prose poems “An Apocalyptic Fragment” and “A Dream” both describe experiences of unusual forms of consciousness that Günderrode believes occur after death. “An Apocalyptic Fragment” uses biblical language to present a vision of beings rising from and returning to an ocean, as an analogy for death and resurrection. The narrator then experiences a dissolution of self and accompanying...