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Dreams, Trauma and Nightmares

Host: Ernest Hartmann, MD

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This discussion group is open to anyone with a serious research or clinical interest in the interrelationship of dreams, nightmares, and trauma. The emphasis will be on trying to understand dreams and nightmares -- the building blocks that make them up, the way they are constructed, and their possible functions. Dreams and nightmares after trauma will be used in helping us understand the nature and functions of dreaming. The group may want to develop some idea for clinical or non-clinical research along these lines.

The group can certainly consider and discuss individual dreams and
nightmares, and try to understand them from a variety of viewpoints.
However, this is not to be considered a therapy group. This is not a group
designed to help individual members with their trauma related problems --
though of course people may learn things which can be useful to them.

As a starting point, I very much hope that group members will be familiar
with some of my work on dreams, and will have read Dreams and Nightmares: The New Theory (1998) or at least the papers on which it was based (e.g.,
Hartmann, E. (1995), Dreaming. 5:213-228, and Hartmann, E. (1996). Outline for a Theory on the Nature and Functions of Dreaming Dreaming,
6:147-170).