The psychological significance of recurrent dreams was explored in a multivariate comparison of recurrent, previously-recurrent and non-recurrent dreamers on core psychological well-being and recalled dream content dimensions. Analytical psychology dream theory was employed to generate hypotheses concerning the relationship between recurrent dreams and psychological distress or neuroticism, and the psychological health value held to associate with the resolution of a recurrent dream. Sixty-seven individuals twice completed measures assessing core psychological well-being dimensions and collected a fourteen day time-sample of their remembered dreams. Multivariate and discriminant analyses revealed the clear separability of the comparison groups in the directions predicted by Jung. Recurrent dreamers achieved significantly less adaptive scores on the psychological well-being measures and reported significantly more conflicted and dysphoric dream content. Previously-recurrent dreamers achieved significantly higher psychological well-being scores and reported more thematically and affectively balanced dream content. The results are discussed in terms of insights afforded into the experience (and resolution) of recurrent dreams, and the support generated for core assertions of analytical psychology dream theory concerning the relationship between dreaming and psychological adaptation (individuation).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.71879 |
| Date | January 1983 |
| Creators | Brown, Ronald James. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Psychology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000190538, proquestno: AAINK66615, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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