Dream content of schizophrenic, nonschizophrenic mentally ill, and community control adolescents. From: Adolescence | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Barak, Yoram; Bruckner, Judith; Elizur, Avner; Gabbay, Uri; Hadjez, Jack; Meged, Sorin; Rotenberg, Vadim S.; Stein, Daniel; Weizman, Abraham | COPYRIGHT 2003 Libra Publishers, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This study compared the manifest dream content of 20 schizophrenic adolescent inpatients whose medications were stable for at least four weeks, 21 adolescent inpatients with other mental disorders (nonschizophrenic group) matched for age and gender, and 31 matched community controls. All participants were administered the standardized Formal Dream Content Rating Scale (FDCRS), which evaluates dream-related anxiety, cognitive disturbance, implausibility, involvement, primitivity, and recall,...