Type 2 · Bibliography
The Survivor
Theorists cited across the Survivor cluster on PTSD nightmares, CPTSD developmental threat imagery, betrayal-trauma post-disclosure dreams, and the evidence-based treatments for each.
6 posts in cluster 10 theorists cited
Rosalind Cartwright
1992, 2010
- Longitudinal dream research; crisis and divorce dreams
Anne Germain
Pittsburgh sleep research
- PTSD sleep architecture and nightmare neurobiology
Ernest Hartmann
2011
- Contextualization of emotion in dreaming
Judith Herman
1992
- Trauma and Recovery; three-stage recovery model
Donald Kalsched
1996, 2013
- Daimonic defender imagery in CPTSD dream content
Barry Krakow
IRT literature, 1990s–present
- Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (evidence-based nightmare treatment)
Peter Levine
1997
- Waking the Tiger; freeze response
Esther Perel
2017
- The State of Affairs; betrayal-era dream content
Stephen Porges
2011
- Polyvagal theory; autonomic states in nightmare arousal
Christian Roesler
2018
- Structural Dream Analysis replication (Journal of Analytical Psychology)
Posts in this cluster
- What Does It Mean When You Can't Move in a Dream?
- Dreams About Being Chased: What Your Psyche Is Working Through
- Dreams After Trauma: What Changes and What It Means
- The Survivor Dream: Why Nightmares Recur and What the Psyche Is Trying to Do
- Why You Keep Having the Same Nightmare
- Why You Keep Having Nightmares: The Three Clinical Patterns