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ASD 2000 Conference 17 Abstracts
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Millennial Dreaming: Washington,
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ABSTRACT
FALSE AWAKENINGS
General Event with DR ROBIN ROYSTON
I am a Psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, Clinical Director of
the Adult Psychiatric Admission Unit at Ticehurst House Hospital, a private
institution. Special interest in dreams and trauma/dissociation and
in dreams and physical illness, about which I have twice presented for
ASD previously.
False Awakenings are the opposite of Lucid Dreams and appear to be under-represented
in the literature. A brief summary of the literature will be followed
by clinical examples, some from the authors clinical practice. Finally,
discussion about the significance of this phenomenon for our understanding
of consciousness.
This paper will first review of the relatively small literature, the
main reference being Green’s (1990) paper (1), For a dream phenomenon that,
in the author’s view, has received far less attention than it deserves.
Unlike LD, FA has significant implications for the psychology, neurology
and philosophy of Consciousness, and has been under represented in theoretical
and general textbooks of dream phenomena, eg, Van de Castle (2), Domhoff
(3), and Mahowald and Schenck (4). There is a large literature for
LD on the other hand.
The bulk of the paper is descriptive and clinical and includes examples
from the author’s practice and from others. The examples are dramatic,
interesting and question the boundaries of consciousness.
Finally, the discussion centres around the proposal for a hierarchy
of consciousness and it is suggested this is consistent with Jung’s concept
of the ‘ego complex’ and its development. It is also questioned whether
FAs are necessarily connected to OBEs (see Green) (1) and whether this
is a “side product” (1`).
1 To be aware of this phenomenon.
2 To consider FAs in relation to other phenomena, eg OBEs.
3 To incorporate FAs into a model of consciousness.
DR
ROBIN ROYSTON, LRCP, MRCS, MRCPsych, Ticehurst, Wadhurst
Extensive experience in the inpatient and outpatient treatment of a
wide range of psychological and psychiatric disorders. Specialities
include trauma based problems, particularly those stemming from childhood
and particularly involving sexual abuse. Publication - Analytical Psychology,
Schizophrenia & Genetics. British Journal of Psychotherapy Spring 1989.
Honorary Research Fellow University of Kent. I have lectured extensively
locally and nationally on the dissociative problems following childhood
sexual abuse. Special interest also in dreams and physical illness and
have presented two papers to the Association for the Study of Dreams in
America in 1996 and 1997 to a large international audience. Also several
radio, newspaper and TV pieces regarding dreams related to physical illness
about which I have a collection now of over 400 individual cases.
Contact information:
Dr Robin Royston
Ticehurst, Wadhurst
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