Increased mastery elements associated with imagery rehearsal treatment for nightmares in sexual assault survivors with PTSD

Anne Germain; Barry Krakow; Brigitte Faucher; Antonio Zadra; Tore Nielsen; Michael Hollifield; Teddy D. Warner; Mary Koss

doi:10.1037/1053-0797.14.4.195

Increased mastery elements associated with imagery rehearsal treatment for nightmares in sexual assault survivors with PTSD

Anne Germain, Barry Krakow, Brigitte Faucher, Antonio Zadra, Tore Nielsen, Michael Hollifield, Teddy D. Warner, Mary Koss

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Exposure, abreaction, and mastery have been proposed as the therapeutic processes of nightmare (NM) reduction. Imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) effectively reduces NMs but involves minimal exposure and abreaction. The authors investigated the use of mastery in the scripting of new dreams (NDs) elaborated during IRT. NM and ND reports were collected from 44 female sexual assault survivors with chronic NMs during their initial application of IRT. Mastery was assessed with a standardized dream coding system and a multidimensional mastery scale. NDs contained significantly fewer negative elements and more occurrences of positive elements and mastery than did NMs. NDs were not devoid of negative dream elements. An increase in mastery over negative dream elements is a core process involved in NM reduction.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	195-206
Number of pages	12
Journal	Dreaming
Volume	14
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/1053-0797.14.4.195
State	Published - Dec 2004

Keywords

Dream coding
Imagery rehearsal
Mastery
Nightmares

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General Psychology

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