Drug Dreams: Clinical and Research Implications of Dreams about Drugs in Drug-addicted Patients

About Claudio Colace

Claudio Colace is executive Psychologist at the Operational Unit of Psychology of the National Health Service in Italy where he works in the Outpatient Psychology Department and in the Centre for Drug Addictions at Civita Castellana. He obtained a MD in Psychology at the University of Rome and a PhD in Psychology at the University of Bologna Italy. After training in sleep research at the Sleep Laboratory of the University of Rome (La Sapienza) he carried out empirical studies on children's dreams dream bizarreness and on dreaming in states of addiction. He has been a member of the Italian Society of Sleep Research from 1997 to 2009 and is currently a member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. He is the author of scientific contributions published in 'The American Journal on Addictions Neuropsychoanalysis Alcohol and Drug Review Sleep and Hypnosis Sleep' and 'Sleep Research'. He has recently published 'Children's Dreams: From Freud's Observations to Modern Dream Research'.