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Dreams in Abstinent Heroin Addicts:Four Case Reports
Claudio Colace, Ph.D.
Effects of heroin abstinence on dreams of four heroin addicts in pharmacological
substitution drug treatment (methadone)were considered.All patients have stopped or
reduced drastically the use of heroin in the first period of treatment.At the same time they
recalled wish-fulfilment dreams in which they used heroin.Frequently in these dreams the
patients reported guilty/anxious feelings after the use of it.These preliminary indications
suggest the following observations:1)dreams may have an important role to understand
problems of heroin addicts during therapy,2)pathological dependencies (e.g.,alcoholism,
opiate addiction,etc.)may give a theoretical-methodological opportunity to examine the
role of needs and/or wishes in the formation process of dream,3)the indications of this
study are consistent with Freud ’s wish-fulfilment theory.(Sleep and Hypnosis 2000;4:160-
163)
Keywords: Wish-fulfilment dreams, dream content, drug addiction, psychoanalytic
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