Posts Tagged ‘Nightmares’
Maimonides International Nightmare Treatment
September 23rd, 2009 | 
Author: Video Blog: Dr. Barry Krakow discusses how patients with nightmares typically have additional sleep disorders and rarely complain about only nightmares themselves.
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Nightmare Treatment Tipping Point
Video Blog: We’re seeing a lot more activity at NightmareTreatment.com – We seeing more activity with the nightmare quiz and book sales: Turning Nightmares into Dreams. Dr. Barry Krakow discusses the “tipping point” of nightmare treatment and IRT, Image Rehearsal Therapy.
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Tags: image rehearsal therapy, irt, nightmare, Nightmares | 
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In the Mind’s Eye of the Beholder
by Barry Krakow, MD | Clinical Psychiatry News | Download PDF
Imagery rehearsal therapy is a broad term for myriad cognitive-imagery treatments for chronic and potentially acute nightmare disorders. Several groups are researching specific brands of the therapy, and this modality is receiving substantial attention in two converging ways.
New Research on Suicide Risk in the Military: Where’s the Sleep Angle?
We were surprised to see that this RFA makes no mention of nightmares or insomnia, both of which are known risk factors for suicide, and both of which are in the category of modifiable risk factors.
I’ll Sleep to That
A big study on drinking behaviors after combat exposure, with a great quote on a sleep connection, “They have intrusive recollections: ‘I keep remembering it, I have nightmares about it, I can’t escape it,”‘ Schlenger said. Vets try to escape the memories through alcohol or drugs, he said.
Exactly, they drink to fall asleep and they drink to suppress bad dreams.
Sounds like sleep disorders are a trigger, wouldn’t you say?
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