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A preliminary study of dream-telling among mentally healthy elderly
— no adverse effects on life or sleep quality | | Author(s) | Arthur T Funkhouser, Claude M Cornu, Hans-Peter Hirsbrunner |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 15, no 10, October 2000 |
| Pages | pp 917-930 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Sleep behaviour ; Mental health [elderly] ; Switzerland. |
| Annotation | While there have been several studies about dreams and dreaming among older people, there does not seem to have been any study of the effects of regular dream-telling (without interpretation). Listening to dreams could become a regular part of caring for the old and infirm. The effects of regular dream-telling in mentally healthy older clinical research volunteers were measured on several variables using standardised testing and self-report: life satisfaction, intrapsychic boundaries, sleep quality, sleep duration, dream recall, dream tone, and dream epoch, and were compared with two control groups. The six variables showed no significant differences among the three groups, indicating that dream-telling produced no adverse effects. The present findings seem to imply that dream-telling is not dangerous for mentally healthy individuals, and may thus serve as a baseline for future studies involving geriatric patients with mental disorders or older people undergoing significant life events. e.g. bereavement or retirement, using the method of regular dream-telling. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001107216 A |
| Classmark | DB: CG: D: 76C |
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