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Although central to any exhaustive theory of human subjectivity, the relationship between dream and waking consciousness remains uncertain. Some findings suggest that dream consciousness can be influenced by severe disorders of thought content. The suppression of unwanted thoughts has been shown to influence dream content in healthy individuals. In order to better define this phenomenon, we evaluated the persistence of obsessive/compulsive themes across the dream and waking cognition of OCD patients and in a control group of healthy subjects. Participants were administered a shortened version of the Thematic Apperception Test to produce a waking fantasy narration, and were trained to keep a dream diary. Dream and waking narrative contents were analyzed in order to recognize obsessive/compulsive themes, and to calculate Mean Dream Obsession/Compulsion (MDO, MDC) and Mean TAT Obsession/Compulsion (MTO, MTC) parameters. No differences were found between the two populations in terms of MDO, MDC, MTO, nor MTC. Density of obsessive and compulsive themes were significantly higher in dream reports than in waking narratives for both groups. No correlation was observed between MDO/MDC scores and Y-BOCS obsession/compulsion scores in the OCD group. These findings strengthen the discontinuity hypothesis, suggesting that ruminative aspects of cognition are somehow interrupted during dream activity.
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PMID:Dream content and intrusive thoughts in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. 2752 32

The collective return of refugees to their country of origin is a challenge for youths who have spent most of their lives in exile. In 1996, a research project concerning young Mayan refugees who returned from Mexico to Guatemala in 1993 suggested that international aid and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) influenced the memory strategies chosen by the young returnees, and shaped their narratives about the past. The aim of the present article is to examine the evolution of these youths' memory strategies three years later, following the departure of most NGOs from the community, and to analyse the influence of this departure on their memory strategies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 returnee youths aged 18-25 to document the transformation of the representations and expectations of the homecoming. To complement these narratives the subjects' imaginary world was explored through TAT plates. Results show how, as the dream of the return home falls apart, narratives of the past are also transformed, suggesting that the changes induced by an international presence may be relatively superficial, and that the reconstruction process is shaped by a plurality of voices which emerge in different moments as attempts to partially contain the multiple uncertainties of post-war life. These results suggest that massive international aid over a short span of time, by implicitly proposing a monolithic interpretation of the past and of the reconstruction process, might in some ways make vulnerable communities they aim to protect.
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PMID:After the NGO's departure: Changing memory strategies of young mayan refugees who returned to Guatemala as a community. 2813 72