PSY 4327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: September 11 Attacks, Waking Life, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4327
• Professor: Kathleen Biard

Document Summary

Lecture 5 dreams, dream meaning, and mental health (april 1, 2016) Coping mechanisms: patients in italy vs. in canada dream differences, soldiers with ptsd. Training for dream therapy isn"t readily available. Used with soldiers to help cope with negative images in dreams. Student"s mood related to dream content: connect dream content with the issue the person is dealing with in waking day. Regression models what dream content can predict categories of discovery. What you experience in your waking life (emotions such as sad, anxious, etc. ) is intensified in your dream. If mentally depressed, can also have emotional symptoms. Cycle depressed thoughts in the day are intensified at night, which makes the emotions worse in the day, and so on. Assignment two dreams each dream uses two interpretation techniques. Negative cycle trauma during the day, trauma in the dream, which makes trauma during the day worse, and so on. Vietnam veterans were effected by september 11 attacks.