Reliability in Dream Research: A Methodological Note

The coefficients of internal consistency and retest reliability had been rarely investigated within the methodology of dream content analysis. Analyzing a dream series of elderly, healthy persons obtained from weekly telephone interviews, the internal consistency of a series of 20 dreams and retests after 4 or 22 weeks, respectively, had been computed. The findings indicate that dream recall and dream length are quite stable, but dream characteristics such as bizarreness and emotional tone underlie large intraindividual fluctuations. In order to obtain reliable measures for these variables which will be important for correlational studies, including waking-life trait measures, one has to obtain as many dreams as possible (about 20) in a very short time period. Further research is needed to extend the present findings to diary dreams and laboratory dreams.     

Presidential Address: 21st International Congress of Applied Psychology

In 1920, 66 years ago, in Geneva, on Claparede's initiative, 16 psychologists coming from 7 countries met to discuss "Nature and Nurture in Aptitude Development". They had a fruitful meeting, decided to create IAAP, and immediately started to organise the second Congress of Applied Psychology which took place in Barcelona in 1921. IAAP is, therefore, the oldest international association of psychologists. Thirty-five years later, and after a period of inactivity due to the war, there was a big step forward. Five hundred psychologists from 29 countries met in London for the 12th IAAP Congress, and Dr. Frisby, opening the Congress, could already take pride in the diversification of our field, quoting educational, clinical and social issues.     

Die akute Therapie des ischämischen Schlaganfalles

Seit Etablierung unserer ersten Stroke Units als Spezialstationen zur Akutbehandlung von Schlaganfallpatienten 1996 und 1998 sind die Herausforderungen an das Management im Bereich der akuten Schlaganfalltherapie durch steigende Patientenzahlen, zunehmende Lyseraten und abnehmende Liegedauer in Kombination mit neuen, Erfolg versprechenden Therapieoptionen stetig angestiegen.