20th Annual International Conference of the 
Association for the Study of Dreams
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June 27 - July 1,  2003
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Berkeley, California

ABSTRACT

Dream as a "Index" of Admission History
Manlio Caporali MD, Giulia Valerio MD., Marco Zanasi MD, Alberto Siracusano, MD

Manlio Caporali: MD, Neurologist and Psychiatrist, ASD Member, Research Professor at "Tor Vergata" Rome University. He worked earlier in the field of Neurophysiology (ERPS) and now both in the field of Group Analysis and Dream Textual Analysis.

Contact: manlio.caporali@uniroma2.it

Giulia Valerio MD.  
Marco Zanasi MD, ASD Member. Research Professor at "Tor Vergata" Rome University 
Alberto Siracusano, MD, Psychiatrist, Full Professor of Psychiatry at Tor Vergata University, Rome.

 

SUMMARY:   

The authors studied 50 psychiatric inpatients admitted for 30 days and drug treated. During this period previous dreams were collected, and dreams made during the admission as well. Different oneiric content analysis, lead by chronological evolution, suggests the hypothesis that dream can be considered as a valuable witness of the "narration" and "mentalization" processes of the admission history.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • To confirm the hypothesis that a dream can be used as index of clinical modifications

  • To develop a new method for the study of the dreams

  • To Study self representation of psychopathology in the dreams

EVALUATION QUESTIONS:

  • What is Arthur Model’s Mentalization model?

  • Why can we use it in the study of the dreams?

  • What is the meaning of the use of dreams as index ?

 

ABSTRACT

 

DREAM AS A "INDEX" OF ADMISSION HISTORY

Following Arthur Model’s "Mentalization" model, described as the skills of knowing and describing disease’s course with the own ways of internalization, the work is meant to look for features within the dreams that can be used as an "index" of the psychiatric inpatient clinical course during the admission. With aim we studied 50 inpatients, with different psychopathological pictures (mood disorder and schizophrenic spectrum disorders), admitted for 30 days and drug treated. During this period previous dreams were collected, and dreams made during the admission as well. It was also asked for oneiric matter following the admission itself. Different oneiric content analysis, lead by chronological evolution, suggests the hypothesis that dream can be considered as a valuable witness of the "narration" and "mentalization" processes of the admission history.

 

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Program Chair: Alan Siegel, Ph.D.
Program Committee: Mark Blagrove, Ph.D.; Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D.; Rita Dwyer; Nancy Grace, M.A.; Roger Knudson, Ph.D.; Richard Russo, M.A.; Richard Wilkerson; Lilith Wolinsky; Dave Pleasants
Conference Co-Hosts: Nancy Lund, M.A.; Steven Smith, M.B.A.; M.A.; Bob Hoss, M.S.
Host Committee: 
Host Committee :Marilyn Fowler (Volunteer Coordinator); Emily Anderson

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