ABSTRACT
R osalind Cartwright is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, where she opened the first Sleep Disorder Service in the Midwest in 1978. She has been conducting studies of dreaming for over 45 years and has published four books: Night Life (1977), A Primer on Sleep and Dreams (1978), The Twenty-four Hour Mind (2010), and with Lynne Lamberg, Crisis Dreaming (1992/2000). Cartwright was given the Distinguished Scientist award by the Sleep Research Society in 2004. (Cartwright’s literature and research support of elements contained in the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams [PMID] model are referenced in other chapters of the current book.) Lynne Lamberg is an award-winning medical journalist who specializes in mental health. She is the author or coauthor of six books, including The Body Clock Guide to Better Health (2001) with Smolensky. Except for this introduction, the summary, and the self-study quiz, the material in this chapter is taken from Crisis Dreaming.*
RISC THERAPY The premise of RISC [recognize, investigate, stop, change] dream therapy is straightforward: If bad dream scripts make you awaken discouraged and downhearted, rewriting the scripts to improve the endings should lead to better moods.
