Deconstruct Your Dream



This website includes stories about my patients and how dream revision helped them recover from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If you have PTSD with a troubling recurrent nightmare you might be willing to share, please submit the text of the nightmare and its frequency (how many nights per week, per month, or per six months), and I will feature it on my blog with suggestions for revision. It would be useful at the outset if you give me a few details about yourself to facilitate the dream revision process. I will be careful to protect your identity.




The Alligator Story

I do have an alligator story… She was a whistleblower and she was working for a large corporation, and having dreams about alligators. In one dream the alligator was biting her in the behind, biting her clothes actually and in…

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Junkyard Dog

Bret was a San Diego County police officer, referred to me by the Sheriff’s Department for treatment of PTSD. He had shot and killed a bank robber at close range. When Bret arrived on the scene, he found the bank robber with a gun in his…

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Pretty Bubbles

Andre had been a Navy SEAL during the Vietnam War. He was fifty six years old when I first met him at the San Diego VA Medical Center in March, 1994. He was African American, divorced, with four children and ten grandchildren. Navy Seal…

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Surviving Day Two

During the period from 1991 to 1993 I was a Research Fellow in psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). It was the time of the first Gulf War. Vietnam Veterans who had been hiding out in their homes or in the woods for…

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