Attachment Styles and Emotional Content, Stress, and Conflict in Dreams of Romantic Partners

Dreaming

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 135-151

  Selterman, Dylan ^a   Drigotas, Stephen ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attachment; dreams; emotions; relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350496373     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017087     Document Type: Article

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