ked by everyone else? It is possible that with the great variety of therapies for PTSD the therapists feel that there is no need for additional methods. In the article “Gift From Within,” Frank M. Ochberg lists a variety of therapies for PTSD: educating the victim (i.e. books, articles); holistic health (i.e. physical activity, nutrition, humor, spirituality); social support and social integration; and finally, clinical techniques (i.e. therapy, role play, and medication) ([3]).This is just a sample of the possible therapies. Ochberg continues on, and, perhaps as expected, makes no mention of dream therapy. There is also no mention of treatment for the sleep disturbances associated with PTSD. This indicates the attitude that one must use other methods to treat the disorder rather than the attitude that using sleep disturbances constructively could actually be a tool to treat the disorder. One can only speculate at the reasons behind this sort of oversight. It is doubtful that any therapist would say that better means of therapy should not be explored or discovered. Another factor could be that the ones who do the research on therapeutic methods are not always therapists. Even if the therapist thought that additional methods were unnecessary, this does not mean that some experimental research would not be done in this area. It is not likely the lack of need that has prevented lucid dream therapy from being explored, but more likely the previously discussed stigma that presents dreams as “meaningless biology” (LaBerge [1]). It is also true, however, that the attitudes surrounding dreams are slowly changing. The growing field of dream research and dream experts characterizes these changes, but not the development of positive dream attitudes in non-dream oriented psychology. Better attitudes surrounding dreams in non-dream psychology must be developed before dream therapy reaches a popular status.It is ...
