What is some literature on dream rehearsal for social anxiety disorder?
These papers go with anxiety disorders such as PTSD:
Treating post-traumatic stress disorder-related dreams: What are the options? Phelps, Andrea; Forbes, David. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics12.11 (Nov 2012): 1267-1269...........the recommended first-line psychological treatment for posttraumatic dreams of PTSD is imagery rehearsal therapy
Combat‐related PTSD nightmares and imagery rehearsal: Nightmare characteristics and relation to treatment outcome. Harb, Gerlinde C.; Thompson, Richard; Ross, Richard J.; Cook, Joan M.. Journal of Traumatic Stress25.5 (Oct 2012): 511-518. ...........Imagery rehearsal for individuals with severe, chronic PTSD and fairly replicative nightmares may be most effective when the rescripted dream incorporates a resolution of the nightmare theme and excludes violent details.
Here is a link that has some good information from Stephen LaBerge on lucid dreaming and PTSD.
http://altered-states.net/barry/newsletter482/pstd.htm
Dream rehearsal will deepen the understanding of the dream and hence throw light on the problem in waking. The most important part of such rehearsal is to dig deep in the points that are not understood. Ask: "Where does that take me? What does lit remind me of?" etc. This brings to light the underlying meaning, for the dream uses past events as vocabulary for what is to come. In addition to this it is a beneficial thing to DRAW the dream's central items. Treat the dream as a story some friend of yours has told you. Forget that it was your dream for a start. Kindle has my electronic version of my book "Tomorrow in your Dreams". Best of luck!
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