eprintid: 9399
rev_number: 5
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dir: disk0/00/00/93/99
datestamp: 2009-04-21 16:42:47
lastmod: 2022-07-18 01:24:47
status_changed: 2012-08-16 08:11:31
type: article
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creators_name: Spoormaker, Victor
title: A cognitive model of recurrent nightmares
ispublished: pub
subjects: 300
divisions: 100500
abstract: 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
date_type: published
id_scheme: ojs
official_url: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/21
ppn_swb: 1650393598
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-93993
language: eng
bibsort: SPOORMAKERACOGNITIVE2008
full_text_status: none
publication: International Journal of Dream Research
volume: 1
number: 1
pagerange: 15-22
citation:   Spoormaker, Victor  (2008) A cognitive model of recurrent nightmares.  International Journal of Dream Research, 1 (1).  pp. 15-22.