Masochistic Dreams: A Gender-Related Diathesis for Depression Revisited

Dreaming

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 211-219

  Bears, Michael ^a,b   Cartwright, Rosalind ^a   Mercer, Patricia ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Dreaming; Gender; Gender role; REM sleep

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041727234     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009480907418     Document Type: Article

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