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Trauma and Dreams Paperback – October 30, 2001

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According to the poet Elias Canetti, “All the things one has forgotten / scream for help in dreams.” To the ancient Egyptians they were prophecies, and in world folklore they have often marked visitations from the dead. For Freud they were expressions of “wish fulfillment,” and for Jung, symbolic representations of mythical archetypes. Although there is still much disagreement about the significance and function of dreams, they seem to serve as a barometer of current mind and body states.

In this volume, Deirdre Barrett brings together the study of dreams and the psychology of trauma. She has called on a distinguished group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers―among them Rosalind Cartwright, Robert J. Lifton, and Oliver Sacks―to consider how trauma shapes dreaming and what the dreaming mind might reveal about trauma. The book focuses on catastrophic events, such as combat, political torture, natural disasters, and rape. The lasting effects of childhood trauma, such as sexual abuse or severe burns, on personality formation, the nature of memories of early trauma, and the development of defenses related to amnesia and dissociation are all considered. The book also takes up trauma and adult dreams, including Vietnam veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Holocaust survivors and perpetrators, rape victims, and firestorm survivors. Finally, this volume concludes with a look at the potential “traumas of normal life,” such as divorce, bereavement, and life-threatening illness, and the role of dreams in working through normal grief and loss.

Taken together, these diverse perspectives illuminate the universal and the particular effects of traumatic experience. For physicians and clinicians, determining the etiology of nightmares offers valuable diagnostic and therapeutic insights for individual treatment. This book provides a way of juxtaposing the research in the separate fields of trauma and dreams, and learning from their discoveries.

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“Trauma and Dreams is…an honest and compassionate book, based usually on direct clinical experience and mercifully free of second-hand-trauma-posturing by cultural studies professors.”―Ben Shephard, Times Literary Supplement

“Trauma and Dreams provides evidence that important information can be gleaned through examination of [PTSD] dreams… Barrett’s coverage of the subject is far-reaching, with dream research on war veterans, rape survivors, kidnapping victims, multiple personality patients, and traumatized children. Barrett also considers the connection between dreams and relatively commonplace traumas such as divorce and bereavement… Trauma and Dreams is well researched and includes contributions by several experts in the fields of trauma and dream analysis.”―Choice

About the Author

Deirdre Barrett is Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a member of the faculty at Suffolk University. She is past President of the Association for the Study of Dreams, and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Dreaming. She has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press; Revised ed. edition (October 30, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 282 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674006909
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674006904
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.36 x 0.72 x 8.94 inches
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Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. is a dream researcher at Harvard Medical School. She Past President of both the International Association for the Study of Dreams and the American Psychological Association's Div. 30, The Society for Psychological Hypnosis. Dr. Barrett has written five books: The Committee of Sleep (Random House, 2001), Pandemic Dreams (Oneirio Press, 2020), The Pregnant Man and Other Cases from a Hypnotherapist's Couch (Random House, 1998), Waistland (Norton, 2007) and Supernormal Stimuli (Norton, 2010). She is the editor of four additional books: Trauma and Dreams (Harvard University Press, 1996), The New Science of Dreaming (Praeger/Greenwood, 2007), Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy (Praeger/Greenwood, 2010), and The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams (Greenwood, 2012). Dr. Barrett has published dozens of academic articles and chapters on health, hypnosis, and dreams. She is Editor-in-Chief of DREAMING: The Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams.

Dr. Barrett's commentary on psychological issues has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, Fox, and The Discovery Channel. She has been interviewed for dream articles in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Life, Time, and Newsweek. Her own articles have appeared in Psychology Today and Invention and Technology. Dr. Barrett has lectured at Esalen, the Smithsonian, and at universities around the world.

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Richard Aru
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on this topic, a classic!
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2010
When this book came out more than 10 years ago, nothing else existed on the effects of psychological trauma on dreams. Now there are many books and magazine articles dealing with the topic, but they're mostly recycling material from Trauma and Dreams. When looking up something in it recently, I was reminded how thorough and well-written it is. T & D has the clearest description of how one can transform recurring nightmares into positive, mastery dreams with imagery rehearsal. The examples in this book--both of the original nightmares and the later healing dreams--are richer and better described than I've seen anywhere. As another reviewer mentioned, there are several chapters which are so dense with research findings and details of theraputic techniques that probably only psychologists want to read them, but most chapters are highly readable and it's still the best book for PTSD nighmare suffers themselves as well as clinicians treating them.
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Curt Howard
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent if you have nightmares or know someone who does
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2010
This book has a fair bit even about general nightmares and will be of interest to anyone who suffers from them or has a child or friend who does. However, the majority of it is about how trauma affects dreaming and how you can intervene--on your own or with a therapist to change post-traumatic nightmares and recover good sleep and a happy dream life. Some chapters are about domestic violence, some about accidents, others about war veterans, so it's applicable to all sorts of trauma. Some is most relevant if you are a therapist working with other people's dreams, but most of it is highly readable to the general public. Recommend Highly!
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Sarah
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific resource on post-traumatic nightmares!
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2001
I'd already ordered this book before the Sept 11th disasters, but it's uncanny how much is relevant to what we're experiencing right now, and what we may have to come if there's a longterm war. It covers all kind of traumas: child abuse, rape, war, kipnapping, political torture, terrorism and natural disasters. It's got great insights into the similarities and the differences between these groups, their nightmares and other effects of the different traumas. It tells a lot about how traumas cause nightmares, but also about how you can use your dreams to conquer both nightmares and also waking symptoms of the trauma. Many of the stories are terribly sad, but there's a lot that's inspirational about people overcoming traumas.
Some of the chapters are written beautifully, they have lots of dream examples and good advice. Anyone who's suffered a trauma or who has nightmares would get a lot from reading the book. A few chapters do come across like a textbook full of facts and figures. Even in these, the information is important and they have a biography of anything else you'd want to read about psychological issues of more specific traumas--child abuse, rape, war, terrorism, etc. It's worth getting even if you skip the most reference-like chapters because it's mostly very, very good.
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