Main description:

This book completes a series of clinical and experimental observations on dreams about drugs of drug-addicted patients, providing a systematic and comprehensive discussion on drug dreams that involves various fields of study and, ideally, to suggest future clinical and research applications.

Contents:

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