Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ciprofloxacin, Antihypertensive Drug, Antihistamine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

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Nightmares: vivid, high anxiety dream, signi cant stress correlated with increased frequency, in adults, correlated with psychopathology, more common in children. Structure: most visual and colour, dream duration = rem duration, eye movements related to action, real time, eeting, forgotten. Nightmares: drug related: antidepressants, beta blockers, antihypertensives, cipro, antihistamines, l-dopa, withdrawal. Wood and bootzin (1990: self reported mean = 9 per year, dream logs indicated an average of 25 per year, measured anxiety unrelated to frequency. Tuesday, november 21, 2017: activation - synthesis. Repressed wishes strive for expression: ego. Wants to sleep, but urges invade consciousness: censor. Disguises wishes: the royal road to the unconscious. Not constrained by: reality (ego, morality (superego, but anxiety can be aroused. Defense: thus content is censored and disguised. Manifest - laundered vision: but manifest content contains clues, symbols where one thing stands for another. Symbols for sexual intercourse: climbing a ladder, riding a horse, crossing a bridge walking into a tunnel, activation-synthesis.