An Overview of Research on Dream Emotions

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  • 夢の感情に関する調査研究の概観
  • ユメ ノ カンジョウ ニ カンスル チョウサ ケンキュウ ノ ガイカン

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Dreams are important in psychotherapy, and dream emotions are a useful clinical focus. This paper presents a review of research studies along with a summary of findings to date about dream emotion and offers some perspectives for future research. A review of overseas and domestic studies showed that dreaming itself has functions in common with psychotherapy, in that dreams with negative emotions function in coping with stress. The results of dream emotions differ depending on the rating and sampling methods used, and it is necessary to focus on the continuity of dream emotions. Prospects for future research include use of spontaneous and subjective dream reports and emotion ratings by dreamers as research methods from a clinical psychological perspective. It is necessary to focus on the discontinuity between daytime emotions, generating basic findings for Japanese subjects, and focusing on changes in dream emotions during the process of psychotherapy.

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