Trait-State Interactions in the Etiology of Nightmares

Dreaming

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 65-74

  Blagrove, Mark ^a   Fisher, Sam ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anxiety; dream; nightmare; psychopathology; thin boundaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650021960     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016294     Document Type: Article

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