A new article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology (Theodor-Katz et al., 2022) recommends adding “maladaptive daydreaming” to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Proposed ...

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Despite what we're often taught to believe, daydreaming can be immensely useful. Not only can it be a source of pleasure and a way to relieve boredom, research shows that our ability to mentally ...

Maladaptive daydreaming should be included as a dissociative disorder in psychiatric manuals, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Prof. Nirit Soffer-Dudek argues in a position paper just published ...

Data from a yet-to-be-published study by Dr. Nirit Soffer-Dudek, a clinical psychologist in Israel, finds that more than 2 percent of the global population may experience maladaptive daydreaming, a ...

Maladaptive daydreaming (MD), also called daydreaming disorder, occurs in people who experience intense daydreams on a regular basis. These daydreams can become so vivid that the individual cannot ...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel, March 18, 2024 – Maladaptive daydreaming should be included as a dissociative disorder in psychiatric manuals, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Prof. Nirit Soffer-Dudek argues ...

Despite what we’re often taught to believe, daydreaming can be immensely useful. Not only can it be a source of pleasure and a way to relieve boredom, research shows that our ability to mentally ...

JAYNE BIGELSEN was always a daydreamer. As a young child, TV fuelled her imagination. “I would watch certain shows over and over… and I would create my own episodes,” she says. She found daydreaming ...