title: Dreams and Nightmares in Personality Disorders.
abstract: Although the relationship between dreaming and psychopathology has been studied quite extensively, research on dreaming in patients with personality disorders has been very scarce. In patients with borderline personality disorder, negatively toned dreams and heightened nightmare frequency have been found-characteristics not determined by co-morbid depression or posttraumatic stress disorder. The review includes suggestions for future studies as the existing results clearly indicate that this line of research is most interesting. Lastly, clinical recommendations especially regarding the treatment of the often found co-morbid nightmare disorder will be given.
authors.affiliation: Sleep Laboratory, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, PO Box 12 21 20, 68072, Mannheim, Germany. Michael.Schredl@zi-mannheim.de.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schredl
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D015897:Comorbidity; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D004325:Dreams; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Dreaming; Nightmares; Personality disorder