To examine the characteristics of the dreams of schizophrenia, especially on the aggressive and sexual impulse which reflect the weakening of the ego in the dreams, the author analyzed 88 dreams of schizophrenic patients and 97 dreams of the normal control.
The results are as follows,
1. As to the categories of the dream ego´s object, the rate of the dreams with human objects were lower in the dreams of male schizophrenic group. Same trends were found in the dreams of female schizophrenic group, it was statistically not significant.
2. As to the contents of the dream ego´s object, relatives appeared more frequently in the dreams of schizophrenia, and friends in the dreams of normal control.
3. Schizophrenic patients tended to have higher score in the Hostility scale than normal control group.
4. There were no significant difference in the rate of dreams with sexual contents between two group.
5. Depression and dysphoria, was frequent affects after dream in the normal control group.
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