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Abstract Index
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ASD 2000 Conference 17 Abstracts
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Millennial Dreaming: Washington,
D.C.
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ABSTRACT
DREAMS, WAKING DREAMS AND PATTERNS OF SLEEP AMONG CREATIVE AGING
General Event with MIGLIORINI, W. J. M. PhD.
The aim of this work is the research of symbolic images occurring among
healthful or creative aging people, and consists of a research on
a group of twenty six sexagenarians and septuagenarians, who were evaluated
as mentally healthful according to medical exams and psychological tests,
such as "Mini-mental State Scale" and "Geriatric Depression Scale" - data
which were found in Ceolim's study (1999) on sleep patterns in aged people.
The images of dreams were collected and the subjects were submitted to the
AT.9:Archétype-test a neuf elements (Durand, 19988) - an inductor
of waking dreamings. The data analysis reveals the "non-structuration
universe" category as predominant - in a type of "formal mysticism" expressed by a kind of "fusion" and even "confusion" of images, meanings
and symbols. On the other hand, and taking account Ceolim's study, one
may say that the images of dreams and waking dreams' struturation seems
to be related to sleep patterns; for example, "formal mysticism" and snooze
behaviour. A preliminary approach of the results may point to the fact
that "matutine individuals" tend to reveal an "heroic structure" while "vespertine individuals" reveal a "mystic structure" of symbolic images.
Migliorini, W. J. M. PhD. Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade
de São Paulo
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