Firth S T, Blouin J, Natarajan C, Blouin A
Can J Psychiatry. 1986 Feb;31(1):48-53. doi: 10.1177/070674378603100110.
The manifest dream content of psychiatric in-patients who had been admitted because of suicidal attempts was compared with three in-patient control groups, patients who had been admitted for: a) depression and suicidal ideation without attempt; b) depression with no suicidal ideation and; c) commission of a violent act without suicidality. Standardized tests of dream content were used as well as the Beck scale for depression and certain subscales of the MMPI. The results confirmed that both suicidal and violent patients have more death content and destructive violence in their dreams, but that this was a function of the severity of depression and certain character traits such as impulsivity rather than being specific to the behaviour itself. The dream content is continuous with, and probably reflects, the waking state in the case of the depressives. On the other hand some of the findings require a more complex dynamic explanation lending some support to the idea that the dream may have an adaptive function.
对因自杀未遂而入院的精神科住院患者的显性梦境内容，与三个住院对照组进行了比较，这三个对照组的患者分别因以下原因入院：a）有抑郁和自杀意念但未实施自杀行为；b）有抑郁但无自杀意念；c）实施了暴力行为但无自杀倾向。使用了梦境内容的标准化测试以及贝克抑郁量表和明尼苏达多相人格调查表的某些分量表。结果证实，自杀患者和暴力患者在梦境中都有更多的死亡内容和破坏性暴力，但这是抑郁严重程度和某些性格特征（如冲动性）的作用，而非行为本身所特有。对于抑郁症患者而言，梦境内容与清醒状态是连续的，且可能反映了清醒状态。另一方面，一些研究结果需要更复杂的动力学解释，这为梦境可能具有适应性功能的观点提供了一定支持。
