What dreams may come: Emotional cascades and nightmares in borderline personality disorder

Dreaming

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 126-144

  Selby, Edward A ^a   Ribeiro, Jessica D ^b   Joiner, Thomas E ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borderline personality disorder; Emotional cascades; Nightmares; Rumination; Waking nightmares

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887540319     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032208     Document Type: Article

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