Lucid Dreaming Treatment for Nightmares: A Series of Cases

Dreaming

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 181-186

  Spoormaker, Victor I ^a   Van Den Bout, Jan ^a   Meijer, Eli J G ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lucid dreaming; Nightmares; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041378068     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025325529560     Document Type: Article

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