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.
Forphysicians 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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