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I've been reading the comments to date with interest. Although I admire Dr. Lavie's meticuousness in cataloguing discrepancies and ommissions (too bad he wasn't a reviewer on this paper), I don't feel these negate being able to discuss the findings. For example, in figure 4, although he's right that there is a blatant mistake in either the numbers on the horizontal axes or their labeling as simple level rather that interaction coefficeints, I tend to assume that the relationships between symptoms and events are being accurately represented. And although, yes, it would be interesting to know more about cause of death of relatives, it is still interesting to see how this variable interacts with dream recall--"violence and accidents" rules out the natural causes that would account for most of the variations not due to the occupation. In response to Kathy's comments about the depression findings, I wanted to say that since that although paper & pencil dperessions measures have reasonable correlations with clinical depression in a population without major significant external losses, the items include many things about sadness and crying that pick up normal grief reactions also and in this population, unless you looked at a few particular items about low self-esteem, you may have something that is more sadness that "depression" in the maladaptive sense. And although "anxiety" is the natural reaction to some of these traumatic events, sadness may be the more natural one to death of a relative and other of the loss-related events. I know the focus was intentionally on dream recall, but it seems the author has only scratched the surface of a very rich data base. I'd love to see future analyses of themes such as Cartwright's distinction between repetitive unpleasant dreams vs. ones that attempt mastery or Terr's of literal re-enactments vs. incorporating traumas into ongoing concerns in terms of whether these distinguish sypmtomatic vs. nonsymptomatic children -Deirdre Barrett