Nightmare Rescripting

This audio exercise guides clients introduces Nightmare Rescripting, a cognitive technique aimed at helping individuals with PTSD to decrease the frequency of recurring nightmares by transforming distressing dream narratives into more positive scenarios. Taken from the Psychology Tools For Overcoming PTSD audio collection.

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Overview

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a condition that develops in response to traumatic experiences, resulting in symptoms including such as flashbacks, hypervigilance, and a current sense of threat. The Psychology Tools For Overcoming PTSD Audio Collection offers a structured series of exercises designed to help clients manage these symptoms effectively.

Nightmare Rescripting is designed to aid individuals suffering from repetitive nightmares by altering the narrative of these distressing dreams. This method is grounded in the retrieval competition theory, where a new, memorable dream script competes with the old nightmare for retrieval. This can assist in the processing of trauma memories, potentially ceasing nightmares altogether.