Drug Dreams

Claudio Colace is executive Psychologist at the Operational Unit of Psychology of the National Health Service in Italy, where he works in the Outpatient Psychology Department and in the Centre for Drug Addictions at Civita Castellana. He obtained a MD in Psychology at the University of Rome and a PhD in Psychology at the University of Bologna, Italy. After training in sleep research at the Sleep Laboratory of the University of Rome ("La Sapienza"), he carried out empirical studies on children's dreams, dream bizarreness, and on dreaming in states of addiction. He has been a member of the Italian Society of Sleep Research from 1997 to 2009 and is currently a member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. He is the author of scientific contributions published in 'The American Journal on Addictions, Neuropsychoanalysis, Alcohol and Drug Review, Sleep and Hypnosis, Sleep', and 'Sleep Research'. He has recently published 'Children's Dreams: From Freud's Observations to Modern Dream Research'.

Introduction -- Phenomenology -- Drug dreams: an introduction -- Drug dreams: prevalence and general contents -- Drug dreams and drug craving -- Drug dreams and abstinence from drug use -- Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects -- Clinical and psychological functions of drug dreams -- Drug dreams as prognostic indicator -- Dream Research and Theory -- Drug dreams and the classic psycho-physiological dream research and theory -- Drug dreams and Freud’s dream theory -- Drug dreams and the neuropsychoanalytic model of dreams -- Conclusion and research agenda