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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Nightmares"”.
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Nuclear nightmares: representations of nuclear anxiety in American Cold War visual culture
This dissertation is a discussion of representations and misrepresentations of US public nuclear anxiety in nuclear apocalyptic popular culture and civil defence initiatives, respectively. Focusing on particular peaks in nuclear anxiety during the 1950s, early 1960s and 1980s, this thesis analyses …
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Tracing the line : a Deleuzian reading of Irvine Welsh's Marabou stork nightmares
… feminine-in Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares. I begin by establishing Welsh's work as what Deleuze terms a "minor literature". I argue, however, that it is largely the novel's visual nature (its acrobatic typography) that both establishes it as a minor literature and demands its …
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Associations of trauma, nightmares, and quality of life in urban african american adolescents
… among urban, African American teens. Nightmares are considered a hallmark symptom of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and are associated with poor sleep quality and poor quality of life in adults. Research about nightmares in adolescents is lacking, and these relations have not …
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Nightmares from the Past: 'Kaiki eiga' and the Dawn of Japanese Horror Cinema
While the global popularity of Japanese horror movies of the past twenty years such as Ring (Ringu, 1998) and Ju-on: The Grudge (Ju-on, 2002) has made these films the subject of much academic attention, the previous nine decades of popular Japanese horror cinema remain an understudied area of film …
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"Power always goes on and on" : the limits of masculinity in Marabou Stork Nightmares and Fight Club
… Club (1997) and Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares (1996), to examine a form of masculinity which is involved in these relations. I explore these novels with the aim of identifying the ways in which their characters engage with those around them in accordance with the system of power …
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A survey of nightmare frequency and intensity in an Australian University sample and treatment with a story-line alteration technique (SLAT)
Nightmares have been described as the most common form of disturbed dreaming. The definition most widely accepted considers two criteria as definitive elements of nightmares, acute anxiety or fear, and awakening from sleep with full alertness. Contemporary studies suggest that nightmares are …
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The association of limbic system activation with dream, bad dream and nightmare generation
Despite the fact that nightmares occur with regularity in the general population, most previous research has focused on clinical samples, and the genesis of idiopathic nightmares remains poorly understood. The aim of the present research was therefore to investigate the neuropsychological …
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Meanings go mobile: Fitness, health and the quality of life debate in contemporary America
… Emerging out of the 1970s era of social nightmares, the ""Reagan revolution"" has afforded the American public to dream of a better quality of life."
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Dear Dear Dear
… Dear Dear explores different themes such as 'Nightmares VS Reality', 'Confinement', 'Response to Being Confined', 'What is Home' seen in the collection. These themes intertwine with one another to create a loose narrative about a speaker actively trying to find a space where he can simply …
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Dreamwork with Children: Perceptions and Practice of School-Based Mental Health Professionals
… where the student was having troubling dreams or nightmares, and/or was dealing with death and grief. They also acknowledged working with dreams with students who were diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, were emotionally disturbed, suffered from recurrent dreams, were depressed, and had …
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Harrow : a collection of fiction
… viewpoint character who wakes from frightful nightmares, which seem to have a primary antagonist: a murderer with eerie, unearthly power.
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Stillbirth and trauma associated sleep disturbances: A population-based study of 27,605 women
… or dream enactment behavior and trauma-related nightmares or memories than other women (p<0.05). Among women who had experienced stillbirth, TASD symptoms were associated with young age (≤39 years), being single, inactive (e.g., unemployed, or on sick leave), and low income (p<0.05). The …
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From the Ashes
… and loyalty to family above all else. Haunted by nightmares, regret, grief, and longing, Cassandra must endure to remember, all while being haunted by the past, a life that has long since died, and be forced to do what is necessary for the ones she loves to keep what is left—alive. <em>From the …
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A psychophysiological investigation of the effects of a psychotropic agent (clozapine) upon sleep parameters of normal young adults
… in REM mentation as well as the occurrence of nightmares (Kales et al 1968(a)(b), 1969(a)(b)). Recent research has suggested that clozapine, a psychotropic agent, may have pronounced sleep inducing properties (Hemphill et al 1975; Ruch et al 1976; Gross and Langner 1966,1969; Berzewski et al …
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Sleep Health Among Children Recently Adopted from Foster Care
… children in foster care experienced more nightmares, night terrors, moved to someone else’s’ bed during the night more often and worse overall sleep quality, whereas adopted children were reported to experience more nighttime awakenings. In the adopted sample, a greater number of adverse …
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Expanding the Fear of Loss of Vigilance Theory: Using Intolerance of Uncertainty, Responsibility for Harm, and Fear of Sleep to Predict Nocturnal Panic Attacks
… a sleeping state without obvious causes such as nightmares or loud noises. Roughly half of patients with panic disorder will experience nocturnal panic in addition to panic attacks while awake, or daytime panic. Like daytime panic, nocturnal panic also occurs in other disorders such as PTSD. The …
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Children of Chaos: Three Movements for Orchestra
… of the dream realm. Colin is the Prince of Nightmares and can manipulate reality with disbelief. In his movement, there is a war between high and low, bright and dark, consonant and dissonant, dream and reality. The structure of the piece begins with a glissandi motiv that lilts the music …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… the stages of trauma which are characterised by nightmares, dissociation, flashbacks or memory loss, which can be considered as enactments of traumatic experience. There is also acknowledgement of the feminist aspect of women’s suffering, which, historically, has been neglected. As some texts …
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