title: A cognitive model of recurrent nightmares
creator: Spoormaker, Victor I.
subject: 150
subject: 150 Psychology
description: Nightmares are a prevalent mental disorder resulting in disturbed sleep, distress, and impairment in daily functioning. Elaborating on previous theoretical models for anxiety disorders, sleep disorders and dreaming, this study introduces a cognitive model of recurrent nightmares, the central element of which concerns representation of the nightmare’s repetitive storyline in the memory as a script. It is suggested that activation of this script during REM sleep results in a replay of the nightmare, and that activation occurs through perceived similarity between dream elements and the nightmare script. The model proposes a central role for cognitive processes in the persistence of nightmares over time. The success of cognitive-behavioural treatments is explained and clinical implications are discussed.
date: 2008
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/8436/1/40_Spoormaker.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00008436
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-84368
identifier:   Spoormaker, Victor I.  (2008) A cognitive model of recurrent nightmares.         
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/8436/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng