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Nightmare Deconstruction and Reprocessing for PTSD Nightmares

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The increased prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among military personnel and veterans in the OEF/OIF/OND era has highlighted the challenges of treating PTSD and nightmares and other sleep disturbances which are among the most common refractory symptoms. This chapter introduces a psychotherapy called Nightmare Deconstruction and Reprocessing (NDR), a novel approach that combines deconstruction of and exposure to nightmare images, meaning making and reprocessing, and dream reconstruction.

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    Patricia T. Spangler & James C. West

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    Eric Vermetten

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Anne Germain

  3. University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

    Thomas C. Neylan

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Spangler, P.T., West, J.C. (2018). Nightmare Deconstruction and Reprocessing for PTSD Nightmares. In: Vermetten, E., Germain, A., Neylan, T. (eds) Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7148-0_27

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