Beschreibung:
This book is aimed at providing a systematic and comprehensive discussion on drug dreams by considering the various perspectives involved (such as therapy in drug addiction, the neurobiology of drug craving, affective neuroscience, dream research) and, ideally, at suggesting future clinical applications for therapists (counsellors, psychoytherapists, clinicians) in charge of treating drug-addicted patients, as well as providing input for dream researchers. The book draws from the author's clinical and research experience on drug dreams among heroin-addicted patients, as well as from the scientific literature in this field. The book is composed of three parts: the phenomenology of drug dreams, their clinical and therapeutic aspects, and their implications for the dream research and theory.
Introduction -- Phenomenology -- Drug dreams: an introduction -- Drug dreams: prevalence and general contents -- Drug dreams and drug craving -- Drug dreams and abstinence from drug use -- Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects -- Clinical and psychological functions of drug dreams -- Drug dreams as prognostic indicator -- Dream Research and Theory -- Drug dreams and the classic psycho-physiological dream research and theory -- Drug dreams and Freud's dream theory -- Drug dreams and the neuropsychoanalytic model of dreams -- Conclusion and research agenda