Levitan H L
Psychother Psychosom. 1978;30(2):137-49. doi: 10.1159/000287292.
Several types of dreams reported by psychosomatic patients with alexithymic characteristics are presented. Two special features of the dreams are noted: (1) the dreams contain events which are very traumatic and (2) the protagonists of the dreams failed to fully perceive their own feelings. It is postulated that the failure of the protagonists to fully perceive their own feelings played an important role in fostering the development of the traumatic events. Feelings such as anxiety and sadness are key signals which incite the ego of the dreamer to set protective operations into motion. The diminution of awareness of these feelings may, therefore, delay the implementation of protective operations to a point which allows the traumatic events to progress dangerously far. It is interesting to note that the few psychosomatic patients without alexithymic characteristics who were included in my series reported a type of dream which was identical to one of the types of dreams reported by patients with alexithymic characteristics. This concurrence suggests the possibility that the dreams form a link between the psychologies of these two sub-groups of psychosomatic patients.
本文呈现了具有述情障碍特征的心身疾病患者所报告的几种类型的梦。这些梦有两个特别之处：（1）梦境包含极具创伤性的事件；（2）梦境中的主人公未能充分感知自己的情感。据推测，主人公未能充分感知自身情感在促成创伤性事件的发展过程中起到了重要作用。诸如焦虑和悲伤等情感是激发梦者自我启动保护行动的关键信号。因此，对这些情感的意识减弱可能会将保护行动的实施推迟到一个程度，从而使创伤性事件得以危险地进一步发展。值得注意的是，在我的研究系列中纳入的少数没有述情障碍特征的心身疾病患者报告了一种梦境，这种梦境与具有述情障碍特征的患者所报告的梦境类型之一相同。这种一致性表明，这些梦可能在这两个心身子群体的心理之间形成了一种联系。
