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J L Singer

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PubMed1975

Daydream patterns and self-awareness in psychiatric patients.

This study investigates the daydream activity of psychiatric patients as measured by the standard retrospective questionnaire vs. a more immediate measure. It also compares the responses of psychiatric patients vs. college students to a daydreaming inventory. Factor analytic and correlative results show considerable consistency between the retrospective and more immediate measures of daydreaming. Psychiatric patients were observed to have less positive and less vivid daydreams than college students, with greater emphasis on fears of failure.

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PubMed1972

Personality.

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Changes concurrent with initiation of abstinence from cocaine abuse.

In an exploration of changes that occur with initiation of cocaine abstinence, this study examined treatment outcomes in four domains--behavior (cocaine use), affect (depression), cognition (schematic self-representations), and psychophysiology (reactivity to drug cues). Nineteen patients initially entered this 8-week outpatient psychopharmacotherapy trial for the treatment of cocaine dependence. Thirteen completed treatment, and eleven maintained abstinence during the last four weeks of the study. In addition to a demonstrated change in their cocaine-using behavior, these "abstainers" reported reduced depression, increased congruency with "ideal" self-schemas, increased discrepancy with "addict" self-schemas, and generally more positive self-representations. In addition, "abstainers" reported reduced posttreatment craving in the presence of cocaine cues, but evidenced no change in physiological reactivity. Implications of these findings for research and treatment are discussed.

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