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BIOGRAPHIES
KATE ADAMS, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, UK. Research interests include significant dreams, religious and spiritual dreams, and children's dreams in education. She is co-author of The Spiritual Dimension of Childhood and on the IASD Board.
ROSA ANWANDTER, MA is a Jungian dream analyst, author, dream researcher, dream educator, founder and director of the Centro de Estudios Oniricos de Chile in Santiago, Chile.
SHEILA ASATO, MA is the founder of Monkey Bridge Arts, dedicated to growth, transformation and healing through art, dreaming and creative development. She provides training in cross-cultural communication, with an emphasis on Japan, for Shepell-FGI and is on the IASD Board.
UMBERTO BARCARO is an associate professor at the Computer Science Department of Pisa University and research collaborator at the National Research Council. He is interested in text analysis of dream reports and dream associations. He has been an IASD member since 1999.
DEIRDRE BARRETT, PhD is author of The Committee of Sleep (2001) and The Pregnant Man and Other Cases from a Hypnotherapist's Couch (1998), and editor of Trauma and Dreams (1996). She is Editor-in-Chief of Dreaming, Past President of IASD and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.
DOMINIC BEAULIEU-PRÉVOST, PhD is a research assistant professor in psychology at Concordia University, Montréal. His research interest is the relations among autobiographical memory, cognitive representations, and social influences in dream recall a nd forensic psychology.
ANN BENGTSSON is a specialist in clinical psychology, having used dreams in clinical practice for 30 years. She teaches dream groups for professionals and published a book on dreams. During 22 years of training with Bob Moore she learned how energy works in dreams.
SHEILA BENJAMIN, DD, DM, PsiD, Field Director, School of Metaphysics, USA, is a teacher, counselor, ordained minister, and recreational therapist. She has been teaching since 1979, is a contributor to the book Interpreting Dreams for Self Discovery, and uses dreams as a counseling tool.
SUSAN BENSON, MSC, has a background in transpersonal studies and is completing her PhD at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She leads art, dreaming and spiritual groups and has a passionate commitment to exploring dreams as avenues of creativity and transformation.
WALTER BERRY, MA resides in Los Angeles, CA, USA, is a Director of Photography in the Motion Picture Industry, a visual artist working in encaustics and printmaking, and leads a dream group in Los Angeles.
BARBARA BISHOP, PhD (English, UCLA) also holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Combining her interests in literature and dream psychology, she teaches dreams in writing classes at Marymount College.
BJÖRG BJARNADÒTTIR, PhD (Developmental Psychology), has a career in Clinical Psychology and has lectured and supervised at the university level for years. He published a book on the dreams of Icelanders and runs the only dream center in Iceland, Skuggsjá, (Mirror, www.skuggsja.is).
MARK BLAGROVE, PhD is Reader/Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Swansea University, Wales, where he runs a sleep laboratory and conducts research into the psychology of dreaming. He is a Past President of IASD, and consulting editor for Dreaming and the Journal of Sleep Research.
FARIBA BOGZARAN, PhD, scientist/artist, is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Dream Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University. In the mid 80's, she worked with the Lucidity Project at Stanford Sleep Laboratory and has conducted pioneering research on transpersonal experiences in lucid dreaming. Since 1984, she has trained students and professionals in dreams in Canada, Asia and Europe. Trained in Integral Psychology, her approach to dreams draws on science, somatic psychology, shamanic studies, Taoism and art. She is the author of Through the Light and co-author of Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work With Them (2002). She started the IASD juried arts show in 1987 and curated annual dream-inspired art for ten years. In 1998, with surrealist painter Gordon Onslow Ford, she co-founded the nonprofit Lucid Art Foundation, dedicated to exploring consciousness and art, where she is the President. She has been an IASD member since 1984, and a past board member and program chair (bogzaran@svn.net).
JENNIFER BOYES-MANSEAU is artistic Director of Dramamuse, the theatre company at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where she directs actors in a variety of storytelling and theater styles, writes and dramaturges scripts. She has fifteen years experience as a freelance actor, director and dramaturge.
GHAZAAL BOZORGMEHR, MA is from Tehran University, Tehran-Iran. She teaches English to children and is one of the translators of Masters of Children’s Literature. Ghazaal also cooperates with the authorized representative of Kids' Skills in Asia, in teaching Kids' Skills.
MARY BRILL, LCSW is an experienced psychotherapist who leads national and international seminars and tours focused on personal growth, dreams, feminine wisdom and spirituality. She is known for her unique ability to tame the inner critic and foster self-acceptance.
NICHOLAS E. BRINK, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist, IASD Board Member, and Book Review editor for the journal Imagination, Cognition and Personality and author of Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Through Dreams, Imagery and Hypnosis.
CHRISTINE BROCHU was a summer intern in sleep and dream research at the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory of the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal.
KELLY BULKELEY, PhD is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union and teaches in the Dream Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University. A past IASD President, he has written and edited several books, most recently Dreaming in the World’s Religions and American Dreamers.
LAURA BYRTUS is a fourth year undergraduate at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include dreaming, especially impactful dreams and transformative dream imagery.
JEAN CAMPBELL, MA is Chair of the IASD Board of Directors. Her most recent dream book, Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power was published in 2006. As CEO of the nonprofit organization, the iMAGE Project, she has worked with the World Dreams Peace Bridge to aid the children of Iraq.
MANLIO CAPORALI, MD is a neurologist and psychiatrist, and Assistant Professor at Tor Vergata University, Rome, Department of Neurosciences-Psychiatry. He has published 145 scientific papers, two books, and works now in the fields of Group Analysis and Dream Textual Analysis.
LAURA CARIOLA, MA studied fine art until the unpredictable currencies of life turned her into a linguist and psychologist. Now graduated from London Metropolitan University, she enjoys a well-deserved summer holiday before pursuing a PhD in psychology or a vocational course in psychotherapy.
SUZANNE CARTER, PhD is a perpetual student of dreams. She has studied with Linda Yael Schiller for five years, and the methods of Robert Moss, Jeremy Taylor, Robert Bosnak, and Gayle Delaney, among others. She has additional background in market research and program management.
BARBARA CENTINI, MD is a psychiatrist affiliated with Tor Vegata University, Rome, Italy.
MEELA CHEN, MS, born in Shanghai, drew early inspiration from Oriental war epics, a fantasy world of dream representations. US immigration made her a bicultural dreamer. In college, she analyzed student dreams during finals week and became fascinated with dream functions, empirically and mystically.
CHUNG-HSING HUANG is associate professor at National Taiwan University. A residence of Taiwan, he is interested in applying research finding to industry projects.
LAUREL CLARK, DD, DM, PsiD, President of the School of Metaphysics, USA, lectures on dreams nationwide and is a dream interpreter for the School of Metaphysics National Dream Hotline®. She often interprets dreams on international radio and TV programs and authored Interpreting Dreams for Self Discovery.
IRENE CLURMAN has been involved in dream-based theater, art and movement, as well as group projective dream work for more than eighteen years. A graduate of Jeremy Taylor’s Institute for Projective Dream Work, she facilitates Dream Portrayal Workshops, leads dream groups and teaches yoga.
JORGE CONESA-SEVILLA, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at Northland College. His research focuses on the juxtaposition of biosemiotics and ecopsychology, particularly studying our alienation from nature as the root cause of psychological illness and societal disintegration.
GUY CORNEAU, PhD, is a psychoanalyst who graduated from the Jung Institute in Zurich. He is a best-selling author of five books including Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity and Lessons In Love: The Transformation of Spirit Through Intimacy. He has given hundreds of lectures and animated workshops on personal development throughout the world. A media personality, he was host of the TV program "Guy Corneau en toute confidence" and "Guy Corneau en atelier." Socially committed, he is the founder of Réseau Hommes Québec and Réseau Femmes Québec networks of women and men involved in person al growth. From 1997 to 2006, Guy Corneau, with twenty artists and therapists, created Productions Coeur.com to offer a new style of lectures, workshops, seminars and trips designed to integrate psychological insight and creative expression to open the heart. Few know that Guy Corneau’s career started in theater. Founder and director of the company Organization Ô, a collective of creators, he wrote, played and directed many plays, particularly La complainte fleurdelysée Fortin, presented at Radio-Québec in 1974. The creation of the play Elle et lui, dans de beaux draps, in January, following the invitation of Théâtre 16-19 from Marseille, in 2008, naturally follows his objective of integrating psychological comprehension and artistic expression.
RICHARD COUTTS holds advanced degrees in electrical engineering and architecture. His avocations include psychology, cognitive therapy, and personality theory.
NICK CUMBO is completing a degree in Primary Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Nick is a member of the World Dreams Peace Bridge and moderated the online beta testing of the Dream Scouts International Program. He hosts an online dream forum called Sea Life.
JOANNA CZUPRYN, BSc is a research assistant at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include intra-dream transformations, recurrent dreams, and impactful dreams.
LAYNE DALFEN, author of Dreams Do Come True: Decoding Your Dreams To Discover Your Full Potential, founded The Dream Interpretation Center in Montreal. She lectures and appears on radio shows. She has a Certificate in Gestalt Counseling, is a member of the C. G. Jung Society and is an IASD Board Member.
BETSY DAVIDS is a writer of literary dream texts, maker of artist’s books, and teacher of writing and book arts. She is Professor Emerita at California College of the Arts. Her own literary book of dreams, Dreaming Aloud, was published by her Rebis Press in 1989.
PATRICIA M. DAVIS is in the PhD program at the Graduate Theological Union. She teaches courses on dreams and spirituality and writes academic research with a focus on dreams in Christian conversions and metaphoric religious language. She currently leads dream groups at two churches.
Dr. TERESA L. DeCICCO is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Her interests include personality, self-psychology, abnormal psychology, health, dreams and dreaming, and dream imagery relating to the waking state.
JOSEPH De KONINCK, PhD is professor of Psychology and Director of the Sleep Laboratory of the University of Ottawa. He is past President of the Canadian Sleep Society and has 35 years of research experience on sleep and dreams. His current research focuses on the normative study of dreams.
GAYLE DELANEY, PhD is the Founding President of IASD and Co-Director of The Delaney & Flowers Dream Center. She is a frequent media guest and lecturer in English, French and Italian. Specializing in the practical uses of dreams, she is the creator of the Dream Interview Method and the "Phrase Focusing Method" of dream incubation
DANIEL DESLAURIERS, PhD is Professor in the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was a co-founder of the Montreal Center for Dreams and co-authored Le Rêve: sa nature, sa fonction et une méthode d’analyse (1987). He has published several theoretical articles on dreams, epistemology and narrative research. Since 1984, he has been an IASD member and training students and professionals in dream work internationally including Sweden, Taiwan and Indonesia. Daniel has conducted qualitative research on dream incubation, dreams and current concerns, dream understanding, body awareness and spiritual dreams. He has been a chair and consultant for numerous doctoral dissertations on dreams. He ha s served as an IASD Board member and program chair and organized IASD regional conferences at CIIS (ddeslauriers@ciis.edu).
CLAUDE DESLOGES follows, since 1979, the track of the white bear, a big dream made in Guatemala. He is trained in dreamwork and Gestalt therapy. Associated with l’Arc-en-Ciel since 1985, he is a workshop animator and trainer. He is co-author of Et si les rêves servaient à nous éveiller.
FREYA DIAMOND has incorporated her dreams into three-dimensional artist’s books filled with collage and creative writing for the past ten years. She has participated and assisted in over 400 weekly dream group workshops in “The Art of the Dream.” Recording daily dreams is the sustaining practice in her life.
RITA DWYER, CPC is a former research chemist, coauthor of papers and patents in the aerospace field, IASD Founding Life Member, Chair of the IASD Board (1987-90), Past President (1992-93), and Executive Officer (1993-99). A founder and facilitator of the Metro DC Dream Community, Rita is a writer, lecturer, and certified pastoral counselor.
HOOSHMAND EBRAHIMI, MA from Shiraz University, Shiraz-Iran, is a child counselor. Hooshmand is the first officially accepted Kids’ Skills instructor in Asia from Ben Furman, MD, founder of Kids' Skills.
Dr. IAIN R. EDGAR lectures in Anthropology at Durham University, U.K. His PhD study of meaning-making in dreamwork groups was published in Dreamwork, Anthropology and the Caring Professions (1995). He has written many articles on dream and imagework in culture, politics, education and identity. His most recent book is Guide to Imagework: imagination-based research methods (2004).
LINDA ELLIOTT is a graduate student in Depth Psychology at Sonoma State University. She has worked with dreams for over 25 years and facilitates women’s groups, dream groups, and workshops. Her research is in the use of personal mythmaking through memoir to guide the m idlife passage.
JIM EMERY, MM, received his teacher certification from the International Shinsundo Association in 1980. As a teacher, lecturer and seminar facilitator, he teaches yoga classes in a variety of settings including health clubs, educational classes, and conferences.
MARCIA EMERY, PhD, host of the 2005 IASD Conference and Board member, is a psychologist, intuitive consultant, college lecturer, and author of PowerHunch!, The Intuitive Healer, and Dr. Marcia Emery’s Intuition Workbook. She appeared on the “Dream Decoders” TV series in 2005.
OZGEN FELEK, PhD candidate, is an advanced graduate student in the Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan. For her dissertation, she is working on Ottoman dream culture.
MARILYN FOWLER, MA is associate professor and Director of the Dream Studies Program and the Consciousness and Transformative Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University. She is an IASD Board member and a former management consultant dealing with organizational leadership.
KIERAN FOX was a summer intern in sleep and dream research at the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory of Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal who is currently conducting research on dreaming.
ANNE FREY, PhD has worked as a Research Associate for a sleep-wake research institute and adjunct instructor for the University of Indianapolis. Along with her dream research, she began doing professional dreamwork eight years ago, offering private consultations, public programs, and workshops.
ART FUNKHOUSER earned his PhD in digital picture processing in 1979 and diploma as a Jungian psychotherapist in 1981. Besides his private practice, he leads a seminar in dreamwork at the C. G. Jung Institute near Zurich and a dream group in Bern, Switzerland.
JAYNE GACKENBACH, PhD is Professor of Psychology at Grant MacEwan College. A past IASD President, she has been an active research and writer in the area of lucid dreams and the psychology of the Internet. Her current research interest is in consciousness and video game play.
JUDY GARDINER has been analyzing, writing about, and researching her dreams for 15 years, a self-study that transformed into a cosmic wake-up call illuminating the union of Science and Spirit. Her work with Montague Ullman focuses on this transcendental quality of the dream.
ALINE GAUCHAT, honour student for a baccalaureate in psychology, is involved in her honour project under the direction of Dr. A. Zadra and J. R. Séguin in Canada.
DEMI GILBERTSON, MS, is a Master Doll Maker and certified doll doctor. Her degree in Psychology emphasized the creativity and healing obtained through dreams. Demi facilitates dream sessions and teaches a course in which students invoke a dream image to create one-of-a kind dolls.
SANDY GINSBERG, MS, MFT, is a psychotherapist in private practice. Using a Gestalt approach, she sees individuals and couples. She has a BA in Art and integrates Creative Art Therapies, a Gestalt version of Sandtray, and Dreamwork into the psychotherapy process.
ISABELLE GODIN is an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards holder and was a summer research intern at the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory of the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal. She is currently conducting research on dreaming.
ANN GOELITZ, LCSW is a clinical social worker and PhD candidate at the Hunter School of Social Work. Her practice includes dreamwork, illness, trauma recovery, end-of-life care, and bereavement. She conducts dream groups and workshops and her many publications focus on dreamwork with trauma survivors.
YVONNE GONGÀLEZ-BÀEZ is the creator of her own line of massage oils and body breezes with aromatherapy and crystaltherapy, a project that came to life in a dream. She teaches about dreams through workshops, and studies Universal Energy, Neurolinguistic Programming and Depth Psychology.
ROBERT P. GONGLOFF is the author of Dream Exploration: A New Approach. He is the IASD Secreta ry and has hosted two international dream conferences. He lives in Black Mountain, NC, where he conducts dream groups and workshops (www.heartofthedream.com).
GARY GOODWIN, MA is a dream group leader and teacher who recently formed a center for teachers of the “inner arts.” He has completed Level I training in the M.A.R.I. (Mandala Assessment and Research Instrument). He teaches dreamwork and active imagination workshops.
DAVID GORDON, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist and past IASD Membership Chair. He has given workshops and presentations throughout the US and Canada. He is the author of Mindful Dreaming: A Practical Guide for Emotional Healing through Transformative Mythic Journeys.
ROSEMARY GOSSELIN, MSW, NCPsyA is a specialist in Jungian Studies who received her postgraduate psychoanalytic training at the Westchester Institute. Mentors in dreamwork include renowned Jungians Donald Kalsched and Marion Woodman. She was drawn north to Canada by dreams.
DALE E. GRAFF, MS Physics, USA, is an internationally recognized lecturer, writer and researcher in psi topics. He is a former Director of project Stargate, the government program for research and applications of remote viewing and author of Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness, and River Dreams. (www.dalegraff.com)
GERI GRUBBS, PhD is a practicing Jungian analyst, a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute-Zurich, and a certified meditation teacher. She has lectured and taught widely on dream interpretation, meditation, and bereavement, and is the author of Bereavement Dreaming and the Individuating Soul.
VANESSA GUÉRIN was a summer intern in sleep and dream research at the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory of the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal.
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REV. BOB HADEN, MDiv, STM, is a Pastoral Counselor and Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Assoc iation. He is Director of The Haden Institute which offers certified training in dream group leadership and spiritual direction in the Jungian, mystical, Christian tradition. He is co-author of Soul's Labyrinth.
MARK HAGEN, MA (Clinical Psychology) is Director of the International Institute for Dream Research (www.dreamresearch.ca). He undertook analytical training in Depth Psychology with Dr. Peter Seidmann. He is the author of Restoration of the Dream (1994) and has kept a Dream Journal since 1977.
LOUIS HAGOOD, NY State lic. Psychoanalyst, Graduate of NPAP Training Institute, 2003, has been published in The Journal of Religion and Health and The Psychoanalytic Review. He is a member of IONS and IASD, and has presented at past IASD conferences.
CHRISTIAN J. HALLMAN, PhD, USA, is a Metaphysician and founder of Quality Health Fitness and Wellness (www.qualityhfw.com), dedicated to helping people progress beyond the absence of illness through physical rehabilitation and total fitness. He is a Captain in the U.S. Army and veteran of the War on Global Terrorism.
DIMITRI HALLEY, MA trained in Amsterdam, Holland and has a private practice as a psychotherapist. He has also worked in a drug and alcohol rehab, and many other settings. He is currently lecturer at the University of Aruba and runs the Center for Teacher Care at the Teacher Training Institute of Aruba.
ERNEST HARTMANN, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Newton Wellesley Hospital, and author of nine books and about 325 articles in professional journals. His most recent book (written for non-professionals as well as professionals) is Dreams and Nightmares: The New Theory (1998, Plenum. Paperback revised, 2002, Perseus, NY).
AMBER M. HICKEY is an interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, UK. She is studying fo r her BA Honours in Contemporary Performance Practice from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Her work intertwines the values and techniques embedded within live art, installation, sonic art, and mob/alternative art into her own string of interdisciplinary work.
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG HICKEY is a Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in expressive and play therapies. She teaches in undergraduate and graduate programs in psychology, completed her dissertation research studying lucid dreams in school age children. She has been making art dolls for over a decade. She currently is Assistant Professor in Psychology at the Greenville Technical College and a faculty member in the graduate program in Counselor Education at Capella University.
HEATHER HIGGINS, BA is a part time faculty at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Applied interests include alcoholism, food addiction and dreams and dreaming. Research interests include dreams and dreaming as it applies to dream analysis in healing from the addictive cycle.
JAN L. HITCHCOCK, PhD is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern Maine's Lewiston-Auburn College (USA). She teaches and writes on interdisciplinary topics, including the interrelationships between poetry and psychology, and is now focusing in more specifically on dreaming and poetry.
CURTISS HOFFMAN, PhD, IASD Vice-President 2007-2008, is an archaeologist and consciousness researcher at Bridgewater State College. He is interested in Jungian approaches to dreaming, and leads classroom dreamwork groups. He has studied the symbolic systems of ancient cultures for the past 35 years. He is the author of The Seven Story Tower: A Mythic Journey through Space and Time. He has an interest in Wagner’s work because of its archetypal symbolism. He was the Host of the 2006 IASD conference.
MAG. DR. BRIGITTE HOLZINGER is a psychotherapist for integrative Gestalt therapy, supervisor, clinical and health psychologist. Her work includes coaching, supervision, and training in businesses and public institutions on burnout and wellness, communication, team development and body language. She has many publications, is a film director, and manages the Institute for Consciousness and Dream Research.
CAROLINE L. HORTON, FHE recently completed her PhD at the Leeds Memory Group, University of Leeds (UK) investigating dream recall and autobiographical remembering. She is a lecturer of Cognitive Psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University and teaches part-time for the Open University.
RUTH HOSKINS, PhD, HHS (Holistic Health Sciences), LCSW, BCD, Director of Relaxation International (www.RelaxationInternational.com), teaches dreams and meditation to develop intuition and integrate body, mind, and spirit. Ruth is the author of Dream Moments, The Voice in Your Dreams Prophecy and Intuition.
BOB HOSS, MS is the author of Dream Language, Executive Officer and past IASD President, and founding Director of the Dream Science Foundation. Trained in Gestalt therapy, he has taught dreamwork for over thirty years and is on the faculty of the Haden Institute. He was recently host of the 28-week IASD DreamTime radio series on VoiceAmerica. His website is www.dreamscience.org.
LYNNE HOSS, MA (Clinical Psychology), EHP-C, is Energy Psychology Program Director for Innersource, and contributing author to 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life. A former counselor, she teaches EP, and is certified by the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.
CHUNG-HSING HUANG is associate professor at National Taiwan University. A residence of Taiwan, he is interested in applying research finding to industry projects.
RYAN HURD, John F. Kennedy University, MA (2008) in consciousness studies, USA. Ryan is a lucid dream researcher at the meeting grounds of ecopsychology and cognitive anthropology. His blog can be fo und at http://dreamstudies.org.
DIANA ILNICKI, MA, BSW Canada. As a film editor, Diana developed an active interest in dreams and became a founding member of the Montreal Centre for the Study of Dreams. She completed an MA in Art Therapy and various clinical training before turning to social work.
JENNY IMBERI, is a graduate student in the clinical neuropsychology program at San Diego State University, CA. As an undergraduate, she worked with Tracey Kahan to investigate the contribution of individual difference factors to variations in affect, cognition, and metacognition across sleeping and waking.
OLIVIER JAAR is a graduate student in Psychology supervised by Antonio Zadra at the Université de Montréal and Centre d'étude du sommeil de l'Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur, Montréal, Québec, Canada. He teaches Psychology and Methodology at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf.
ELIZABETH JEFFRIES, BA has been to Wales four times, and is on the Board of Directors of the St. David's Society of Pittsburgh, promoting awareness and appreciation of Welsh cultural heritage in Western Pennsylvania.
DAVID JENKINS, PhD, offers dream groups in Berkeley and Oakland, California. His PhD study of Emanuel Swedenborg's dreams led him to focus on the reality of the dream experience, the importance of dream series and the need of human beings to create stories. He writes a weekly column at www.dreamoftheweek.com.
MARY WHITEFEATHER JOYCE, MA works with autistic and gifted children and holds associate degrees in Environmental Studies and Behavioral Psychology. A fourth generation Passamaquoddy medicine woman, she is a member of Women’s Intertribal Healing Circles in the U.S. and Canada. Co-founder of a Community Outreach Program, she assists homeless women and children.
TRACEY L. KAHAN, PhD is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Santa Clara University, USA. Her research explores the relationship between dreaming and waking cognition and has shown that waking and dreaming, especially REM dreaming, are more similar than different with respect to metacognitive skills.
DAVID KAHN, PhD, is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and President of IASD. His research explores normal states of the brain while dreaming. Recent publications include “Dream Content: Individual and Generic Aspects” in Consciousness and Cognition, 2007, 16, 850-858 (co-authored with Allan Hobson) and “Metacognition, Recognition and Reflection while Dreaming,” a chapter in The New Science of Dreaming (Deirdre Barrett and Patrick McNamara, eds, 2007).
JACOB KAMINKER has a Master’s in Depth Psychology from Sonoma State University. He is currently working on his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. His academic pursuits include philosophy of mind, mysticism, theoretical physics, and comparative religion
AHMED A. KARIM, PhD, Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, studied Psychology and Neuropsychiatry in Berlin and Oxford and received his PhD in Neuroscience at the International Max Planck Research School for Neural and Behavioral Sciences in Tuebingen. Since 2002, he has been working as a Neuroscientist and Psychotherapist at the Medical Faculty in Tuebingen, Germany.
SIAMAK KHODARAHIMI, PhD (Clinical Psychology) is member of scientific board at Islamic Azad University- Eghlid Branch in Iran. Born in Iran, he is a member of International Society for Clinical Psychology (ISCP) and the editorial board of the Journal of Psychotherapic Novelties. He has been involved in translating, co-editing and writing several books on clinical psychology and has conducted more that twenty research projects in Iran.
DAVID B. KING, BSc, is a student at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He is currently completing his Masters degree in psychology under the supervision of Dr. Teresa L. DeCicco and will be pursuing a PhD degree. Current research interests include dreams, spiritual intelligence, meaning, and health.
PHILIP KING, PhD retired in 2006 as Professor of quantitative methods and psychology at Hawaii Pacific University where he taught courses on dreams, statistics, and research methods. He is currently writing a book on dream education with Kelly Bulkeley and Bernard Welt.
ANDRÉE KINGSBURY, RN, is a Spiritual Director whose belief in the interconnection of nature and spirit inspires her as a Sacred Circle Dance leader and Reiki practitioner. Her dreamwork is informed by Jungian Analyst Laurie Savlov, Expressive Arts Therapist Jon Oelrichs, the Toronto Centre for Psychodrama and Sociometry and BodySoul Rhythms with Marion Woodman.
GERHARD KLOESCH studied psychology and political science in Vienna. Scientific staff member since 1989 in the sleep laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry (Medical University of Vienna) and since 1997 sleep and dream researcher at the Department of Neurology (Medical University of Vienna). Since 1993, his research has focused on the clinical application of activity measured by means of actigraphy for the diagnosis of sleep/wake cycle disorders.
DR. BART J. KOET teaches Biblical Studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology Utrecht/Tilburg (the Netherlands) and on the Leiden University for Practical Science. He writes on dreamstories from the Bible, the Talmud and other classical literature, including Dreams and Scripture in Luke-Acts, Collected Essays (2006).
ELENA KORABELNIKOVA, PhD in Medicine, graduate of Moscow Medical University, neurologist, psychotherapist, somnologist, a member of Moscow Somnological Center, professor of Neurological department of Moscow Medical Academy, professor of the Psychological department of the Institute of Medical Social Rahabilithology, member of PPL, and author of two books on sleep and dreaming.
KEVIN KOVELANT, MA is a recent graduate of JFK University, having compl eted his Masters in Consciousness Studies and a certificate in Dream Studies. His thesis focused on the felt sense of presence of the dead in dreams. Kevin runs the website streamsofconsciousness.org.
MILOSLAVA KOZMOVA, MA, is a graduate student at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, pursuing her PhD (June 2008) in psychology with concentration in consciousness and spirituality. Her interests subjective experience, differences between the dreaming and waking consciousness, and the health-relevant value of the dream content.
MILTON KRAMER, MD, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Past President of IASD, joined the faculty in Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati in 1960 where he remained until 1982. He was a founding member of the Association of Sleep Disorders Centers, now the Academy of Sleep Medicine. In 1984 he opened a Sleep Center at Bethesda Hospital, where he remained until 1999. Currently Dr. Kramer is Visiting Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author/ editor of six books, most recently, The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration, 163 articles, 126 abstracts, and 60 book reviews and discussions dealing with dreams, the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, and other health and health-related social issues.
DON KUIKEN, PhD, is a faculty member at the University of Alberta. His research interests include dreaming, aesthetics, and phenomenological psychology. His research concerns changes in self-understanding through dreams, aesthetic experience, and phenomenological methods.
BEENA KURUVILLA, BA completed her honors degree in psychology at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (April, 2008). Her thesis examines video game play and dreaming from evolutionary and self-awareness perspectives. She has worked as a researcher, examining the relationship between media use and dreaming.
TOM LANE, DMIN (Union Theologic al Seminary, VA, 1975) has practiced and had training in counseling, including a Post-Doctoral year in Pastoral Counseling, and two-year program in Spiritual Direction. He is the founder of A Journey Toward Wholeness (www.journeyconferences.com). He is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, and a Certified Reality Therapist and a PC (USA) minister. For more than a decade, he has conducted Dream Retreats and workshops and provided the Dreamtending Leadership for the October 2007 Journey Conference “Moving Toward Wholeness” in Brown’s Summit, NC.
ERIN LANGLEY, MA earned her MLA at Naropa University in Indigenous Mind, and has worked with indigenous elders globally to restore sacred connections to the Earth, our ancestors, and our dreams. She created www.dreampeople.net to help westerners recover their native traditions. She is a fine artist whose artwork can be viewed at www.erinlangley.com.
NICOLAS LANGLITZ, MD, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He studied medicine and philosophy and received doctoral degrees in medicine (Berlin) and anthropology (Berkeley). He published a book on Lacan’s psychoanalytic practice and is now writing a second one on contemporary hallucinogen research.
JESSICA LARA-CARRASCO, MSc, is a doctoral student in Psychology at the Université de Montréal who is currently conducting research in the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory. She has been a Research Assistant in the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory in the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal since 2004.
JUDITH R. LARSEN, MA, JD is an attorney, writer, and life-long recorder, student and analyst of dreams. The work of Carl Jung consistently informs her dream research. She also draws on philosophy, science, poetry and visual arts to express the dream condition.
JUSTINA LASLEY, MA, USA, founder and director of the Institu te for Dream Studies and the DreamsWork™ Certification program is the author of Honoring the Dream: A Handbook for Dream Group Leaders and In My Dream…, a guided dream journal. Her special interest is in using dreams as a spiritual source for personal growth through an exploration of emotions and energy. She has led groups, presented lectures, and workshops throughout the U.S. for seventeen years.
MING-NI LEE, MS is a graduate student at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include dreaming, mystical experiences, and transpersonal psychology.
ANNA LEIFER, PhD, USA, became interested in dreams during her postdoctoral training. In the 25 years she has been in practice, she has gathered over 1,000 dreams from patients. These provide a large database from which she write and for which she is grateful.
ANITA LEUTHOLD studied clinical psychology at the University of Zurich (completed in 1986). Afterwards she worked as a counselor and has led dreamgroups (and raised four children). She lectures widely on dreams as advisors, and over the past few years has had a special interest in the connection between illness and dreaming.
DR. ROSS LEVIN is Associate Professor of Psychology at Yeshiva University. Research interests are the study of nightmares and other sleep disorders; cognitive-behavioral treatment of sleep disorders; cognitive behavior therapy in the treatment of insomnia; dreaming and personality styles; adult psychopathology and creativity; the relation between dreaming and waking cognition; validation or assessment techniques in clinical settings particularly with personality disorders; and phenomenal qualities of consciousness.
KATIA LÉVRIER is a third year undergraduate in Psychology at the Université de Montréal currently conducting research on dreaming.
JACQUIE LEWIS, PhD is the Interim Co-Director of the Dream Studies Certificate Program at Saybrook Graduate School and teaches Biopsychology of Sleep at Northcentral University. She is also creating a course at Southern California University titled Psychology of Dreams and Dreaming. Her PhD dissertation examined the dream reports of animal rights activists, where she found many animal dreams. She has an interest in dreams that spans decades and is an avid animal dreamer herself.
RUTH LINGFORD, born in London, has been teaching animation at Harvard since September 2005. In Sept 2006, she was appointed Harvard’s first Professor of the Practice of Animation. Her films have been shown around the world.
JON LIPSKY is Professor of Acting and Playwriting at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. He introduced Dream Enactment to the Theatre School’s program over twenty years ago, and, since then, has led workshops in Dream Enactment in theatres, museums, and universities in North America and Europe.
MONIQUE LORTIE-LUSSIER, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada, and conducted research on women’s dreams for over 25 years. She was a member of the IASD board from 1994 to 1997.
ATHENA LOU is a Dream Counselor and Reiki Master who helps dreamers discover the hidden meaning of their dreams and apply this in personal growth, careers, relationships and healing. She is founder and principal of TeamWorks-Resources for Winning, a business consulting firm; Belly Babes, a belly dance troupe; and Athena Dreams, a seminar and retreat development center.
EMILY LUTHER is a senior psychology major at Santa Clara University, USA. For three years, she has assisted Tracey Kahan with research investigating the contribution of individual difference factors to variations in affect, cognition, and metacognition across sleeping and waking. Emily plans to apply to graduate school in clinical psychology after taking a year off.
MARY PAT LYNCH, PhD is a writer and educational consultant. Her background includes education and anthropology. She has experience in higher educatio n, government and corporate settings. Dreams are a lifelong interest, dreamwork an emerging passion.
TALLULAH LYONS, with Wendy Pannier, created a program for cancer patients that uses dream work with other integrative medicine modalities. They received developmental grants in 2005 and 2006, and continue to expand their work. Tallulah is the author of Dream Prayers, Dreamwork as a Spiritual Path. She facilitates dream work and teaches mind/body techniques at two hospital Cancer Centers in Atlanta, GA. She is certified through the Haden Institute.
TERESA MacCOLL, MA graduated from Naropa University in the Indigenous Mind MLA program, where she studied indigenous science and holistic ecology. She seeks to develop closer relationships with the creatures of land and sea through blending science, art, dreams, ritual, ceremony, and storytelling.
MUNIRAH MacLEAN, BA, PGCE, studied Comparative Religion and Religious. She has been involved with Sufi practices since 1985 and traveled widely in the Middle East as well as educating, writing and counseling. In 2006 she and her husband, Dr Ibrahim Kreps MD established a research centre in Damascus, Syria.
MICHELLE MANGINI, BA, SIPA, is a speech language pathologist assistant working for the South Coast Educational Collaborative in southeastern Massachusetts. An active dreamworker for eight years, she has used dream imagery in visual artwork for the past seven years.
ROGER D. MARTINEZ, BA, LADC, NCAC-ii, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, writes the column, "The Dream Zone" published in Addiction Professional. This column focuses on addiction and counseling issues related to dreams. He is a licensed counselor and national certified addiction counselor who has taught classes at Santa Fe Community College and the University of New Mexico. He presents workshops locally, around the state, and nationally on dreams and other counseling topics.
DAWN MATHENY, MA, PhD, has tended her dreams as a spiritual practice f or many years. Her doctoral research explored the varying ways people relate to and make meaning of their dreams. Having just gone through a career shift, Dawn is Executive Director of Veriditas, a non-profit promoting the wisdom and power of labyrinth work.
SUSAN E. MEHRTENS, PhD (Yale) is on the faculty of Queens College and was with the College of the Atlantic from 1969 to 1985. She is President of The Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, an educational organization based on Jungian philosophy. From 1985 to 2005, she was President of The Potlatch Group, a global research organization.
SANDRA MOON DANCER, BSc, MHSc is Founder and Executive Director of the Centre of Circlewisdom (www.circlewisdom.ca), Toronto, Canada. She is a shaman and medicine woman with over twenty-five years experience in health care and healing. Tribal Children’s Circle, Goddess Girls Circle, Bellytides and Family Healing Circle are CCW programs that support families across Ontario.
CAROLE MORAN, BSc, is an MSc Candidate in the Applications of Modeling Program in Psychology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests in dreaming are related to health, stress, pain, memory and the therapeutic properties of dream therapy.
LANA NASSAR (Amman, Jordan/ California, USA) is a multi-media performing artist and ethnographic researcher, with a focus on Middle Eastern/Arabic mythology. Interested in archetypes, the imaginal realm, and dreams cross-culturally, she writes, directs dream-plays, and leads travel courses to Jordan. Living in the Bay area, she works as translator.
Dr. GEOFFREY S. NAVARA is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, specializing in family relationships and the communication of cultural values and beliefs. His interests include the qualitative analysis of narratives and how individuals make meaning of these stories.
AÏDA ANNICK NDIAYE was a su mmer intern in sleep and dream research at the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory of the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal.
REV. GEOFF NELSON, DMIN is a Presbyterian pastor in Whittier, California, USA. With over 30 years experience with his own dreams, he recently completed a DMin degree on Dream Groups in the Church. A pastor for thirty years, he is also a trained spiritual director.
TORE NIELSEN, PhD, a Montrealer, is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montreal, Director of the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory (www.jtkresearch.com/dreamlab/) at the Sacré-Coeur Hospital Research Center, which he founded in 1991, and Research Professor of the Quebec Mental Health Research Fund. The Dream and Nightmare Laboratory is one of the world’s few sleep laboratories dedicated exclusively to the study of dreaming and dream disturbances. Its objectives are to train students, researchers and health professionals in the techniques and applications of dream science, develop treatments for dream-related health problems, and educate the public about the important role dreams and nightmares play in psychological life. Dr. Nielsen has authored over a hundred scientific papers and book chapters on dream and nightmare science. He is a past IASD Board member and a past editor of the IASD Newsletter (now DreamTime). His special interests are in the laboratory study of dreaming, nightmares and hypnagogic hallucinations, with a special emphasis on psychophysiology and quantitative dream analyses (tore.nielsen@umontreal.ca).
VALDAS NOREIKA, MSc, studied philosophy (BA) and neurobiology (MSc) in Vilnius University, Lithuania. In 2005, he joined the Consciousness Research Group led by Prof. Antti Revonsuo at the University of Turku, Finland. Noreika is working on his PhD project “Consciousness and the Dreaming Brain: Empirical and Theoretical Studies.”
JAMES F. PAGEL is Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Director of the Sleep Disorders Center of Southern Colorado-Pueblo. He has 35 years of experience in the fields of sleep and dreams with more 100 papers and 15 book chapters. His books include Primary Care Sleep Medicine, and The Limits of Dream: A Scientific Exploration of the Mind Brain Interface.
WENDY PANNIER, with Tallulah Lyons, created a program for cancer patients that uses dream work with other integrative medicine modalities. They received developmental grants in 2005 and 2006, and continue to expand their work. Wendy has worked extensively with Dr. Montague Ullman, publishing the quarterly newsletter, Dream Appreciation, with him. She became an IASD board member in 1999, serving as both Secretary and Board Chair before becoming President in 2005.
DR. KRIJN PANSTERS is a senior researcher of Franciscan spirituality at the Franciscan Study Centre of the Faculty CatholicTheology Utrecht/Tilburg (the Netherlands). He writes on dreams, visions and virtues in Franciscan Literature, The Cardinal Virtues in the Low Countries, 1200-1500, (2007).
TYNA PAQUETTE, MSc, has been Research Coordinator of the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory in the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal since 2000. Her research interests include physiological correlates of dreams and nightmares.
DR. JESSICA PAYNE holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Psychology Department at Harvard University, where she is currently a Harvard Mind, Brain and Behavior Fellow. Dr. Payne’s research focuses on creativity, dreaming, and the roles of stress and sleep in human memory consolidation.
CYNTHIA PEARSON (USA) chaired the "Long Term Journal Keeping" panels for many years and presides over Dreamjournalist.com, “A Website for People Who Write Down Their Dreams.” She is the author of several books and served on the board of IASD for 5 years.
JOSIANNE PERRON was a sum mer intern in sleep and dream research at the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory of Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal.
MARIA SILVIA COSTA PESSOA, psychologist specialized in Family Therapy, is a Doctorate student in the post graduate program in Clinical Psychology at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and a trainee member of the Brazilian Society for Analytical Psychology.
WINNIE PICCOLO, MA, MFT is a depth psychotherapist in private practice who studied dream work with Strephon Kaplan Williams and Stephen Aizenstat. Of Dutch-Indonesian heritage, her soul’s journey began with being born into incendiary times to parents who suffered years of imprisonment during WWII.
MEG PIERCE, MA, MFT has been keeping dream journals since she was twelve years old. Her dreams tell her to walk the mystical path with practical feet so she has a private practice in Santa Rosa and San Francisco specializing in depth work. Her work runs the gamut from couple’s therapy to trauma recovery.
ANI POPOVA, BSc, is a master’s student in Psychology at the Université de Montréal who is currently conducting a research project on dreaming.
FRANÇOIS RABBAT, was a summer intern in sleep and dream research at the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory of Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal.
VICTORIA RABINOWE, USA, has facilitated over five hundred workshops, retreats and dream sharing groups in “The Art of the Dream” using the multidisciplinary, interactive Rabinowe Method. She is a graduate of the Advanced DreamTending Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her nationally exhibited artwork and international teaching career span thirty years.
VALLEY REED is a Healer, Massage Therapist, Entrepreneur, Artist, Dancer, Choreographer, Writer, Dreamer, Activist, Teacher and Mother. She wrote the fairytale "The Crow and the Phoenix" based on a series of dreams that she choreographed and performed as a dream dance. She has presented on children and dream educatio n. An IASD member since 2000, she is one of the original members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge. She has studied Shamanic Practices for over twenty years.
PIETRO RIZZI is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Milan (Italy). He is an associate professor at the Psychology Faculty of the Milano–Bicocca University. His research interests include: theory and methods in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, clinical interview, and psychoanalytic approaches to aesthetics.
MARIE-EVE ROSS was a summer intern in sleep and dream research at the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory of Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal.
RICHARD RUSSO is Co-Director of the Dream Institute of Northern California and a Past President of IASD. He is currently Editor of DreamTime and Chair of the IASD Arts Committee. He is editor of the anthology Dreams Are Wiser Than Men and a dreamworker for over thirty years. With Meredith Sabini, PhD, he pioneered the Culture Dreaming method of dreamwork.
CATHERINE SABOURIN is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology. She holds a doctoral scholarship from The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
MOHAMED OMAR SALEM MBChB, DPM, BCPsych, FRCPsych
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences United Arab Emirates University.
SÉBASTIEN SAUCIER, PhD, has a Master in Psychology on the topic of dreaming and virtual reality and is a member of the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory in the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal
LINDA YAEL SCHILLER, LICSW is an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Social Work, and in private practice. She has been running an ongoing experiential dream circle for over ten years and a member of her own dream group for almost 25 years. She is the author of numerous articles and audiotapes on group work from a relational perspective, works with survivors of trauma, from a holistic mind/body/spirit perspective and on dreamwork. She is trained in many of the new body/mind techniques including EMDR, TAT, TFT, and hypnotherapy.
PATRICIA SCHMIEG, EdM, (Psychology, Harvard Graduate School of Education), BA (English Literature, Boston University). A disability advocate and writer, since age four, she has dreamt between time, seeing most clearly under waves, or on a boulder edging pond and shore. Peregrine, heron, and swan call her to Canada, migrating North.
LAUREN Z. SCHNEIDER, MA, MFT is a psychotherapist who integrates family systems, dream therapy and her pioneering method, Tarotpy®, in private practice. She supervises groups for laypersons and training therapists, lectures, and is certified in Advanced DreamTending from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
MICHAEL SCHREDL, PhD, Sleep laboratory, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany. Since 1990, he has worked in the field of dream research and published several books and over seventy scientific articles on dream recall, dream content analysis, nightmares, lucid dreaming, dreams in patients with sleep disorders, and sleep physiology.
MARK A. SCHROLL, PhD, USA, is an independent transpersonal cultural theorist, and IASD presenter 2005-present. He is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Mindbody States and on the Scientific Advisory Board, The Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential. His research interests include Bohm’s holistic physics, shamanism, ecopsychology, psi, and JRZ System’s music (rockphd4@yahoo.com).
RICHARD SCHWEICKERT, PhD (Psychology, University of Michigan), is Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, USA and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
FATHER JOSEPH SEDLEY, CP, RC, is a Catholic priest and accredited spiritual director who has recorded over 5000 of his own dreams, conducts Dream and Spiritual Growth Workshops throughout the U.S. and works 12- Step Programs. He is an experienced Retreat Master.
FRED JEREMY SELIGSON, JD (Seoul, South Korea) is Asia-Pacific VP for the IASD. This year he taught a Travel Journal through the World's Religious Cultures at a Buddhist University. His many books and publications include Oriental Birth Dreams and The Children's Peace Train Book.
ALAN B. SIEGEL, PhD is an avid hiker and Past IASD President, current Education Chair and Editor-Emeritus of DreamTime. He practices child and adult psychotherapy and assessment and is Assistant Clinical Professor, UC Berkeley and faculty at Alliant University’s CSPP. He is the author of Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life’s Answers in Your Dreams (2003).
ALBERTO SIRACUSANO, MD is a psychiatrist and Full Professor of Psychiatry at Tor Vergata University, Rome.
ANDREA SMIT, BA (2008) is currently completing a degree from Trent University in psychology. Andrea worked with a team of researchers examining the dreams and discovery of those dreams with women diagnosed with breast cancer in her thesis.
Dr. CARLYLE SMITH is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Interests include sleep states, memory processes and dreaming. He is director of Trent Sleep Laboratories.
ELIZAVETA SOLOMONOVA, BA is a Master's student in Psychology at the Université de Montréal. A Research Assistant in the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory in the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal since 2004, her research interests include phenomenology and neurophysiology of dreams and parasomnias.
CHRISTOPHER SOWTON, ND, FCAH is a practicing classical homeopath and naturopath who blends homeopathy and psychotherapy with an emphasis on dreamwork, active imagination, and depth psychology. He uses dreamwork and videotaping to uncover deep unconscious blocks which can prevent healing.
PATRICIA SPANGLER, MA, USA, is a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology, University of Maryland College Park. Research interests include process and outcome of dream work in psychotherapy, interpersonal patterns in dream content, and group dream work.
PHILIPPE STENSTROM, MSc, is a doctoral student in Psychology at the Université de Montréal. He is a research assistant and technician at the Dream and Nightmare Lab. He has co-authored several publications on dreaming and presented his research at many international sleep conferences.
Dr. ROBERT STICKGOLD is an associate professor of psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. His research has focused on the nature of dreaming and on the role of sleep in offline memory processing.
BONNELLE STRICKLING, MA, PhD, RCC is an instructor in Philosophy at Langara College, a Jungian Psychotherapist and Spiritual Director in private practice, Clinical Associate in Dept. of Psychology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC., and author of Dreaming about the Divine (SUNY, 2007).
GLORIA STURZENACKER is an editor, writer, and graphic artist who developed a symbol system, Inner Guide Mapping, to track the multi-layered interaction of internal and external experience. She has been a presenter on the Long-Term Journal-Keeping panel and an IASD Board member.
GUNNAR SUNDSTRÖM is a Clinical Psychologist and Licensed psychotherapist at the Göteborgs Psykoterapi Institut. He is Chairman of the Board of Swedish Dream Group Forum. He has been a member of dream groups since the early 80s and educated as a group leader in the Montague Ullman method by Kerstin Andersson.
CONNIE SVOB is a fourth year undergraduate at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include dreaming, especially dream work, impactful dreams, and transformative dream imagery.
ATAVA GARCIA SWIECICKI, MA has a dream practice guided by the wisdom of her Slavic, Otomi, Navajo and Magyar ancestors. As a graduate and faculty member of the Indigenous Mind Master's Program, she explores how ancestors and spirits communicate through dreams and facilitates dream groups with this focus. She is also a clinical herbalist (www.ancestralapothecary.com).
CHRISTINE SWINT, MA, RYT, USA. Christine is a creative writer in English and Spanish who looks to her dreams for guidance and inspiration. She completed her yoga teacher training in November, 2007, and has been leading classes in metro Atlanta, Georgia.
MICHAEL TAPPAN, MA is a graduate of Jeremy Taylor’s Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work who has directed and acted in improvisational theater and currently facilitates Dream Portrayal Workshops. He has lived and worked in the Amazon, the Andes, Siberia and in West Africa, where dreaming is integrated more fully into waking life.
MEGAN THOMPSON is a Research Analyst in clinical neuropsychology at SRI International. As an undergraduate career, she worked with Tracey Kahan investigating the contribution of individual difference factors to variations in affect, cognition, and metacognition across sleeping and waking.
ROBERT TOMPKINS, PhD, MFT has been a passionate inquirer into the natures of spirit and soul, first as a professor of philosophy and, more recently, as a psychotherapist. He has a part-time practice in Sebastopol, where he is currently writing on the relationship of “soul” to contemporary philosophy
KATJA VALLI is a PhD student in psychology at the University of Turku, Finland currently researching the biological function of dreaming, testing the threat simulation theory of dreaming. Her areas of expertise include dream content analysis, sleep laboratory dream research and evolutionary psychology.
ROBERT VAN de CASTLE has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from U North Carolina (1959). He was Director of the Sleep and Dream Laboratory at U Virginia for ten years and Associate Director of The Institute of Dream Research for two years. He is the author of Our Dreaming Mind (1994) and co-author with Calvin Hall of The Content Analysis of Dreams (1966).
CECILIA VOICULESCU, MA (Visual Studies) is a conference interpreter at European Union conferences, Fulbright Scholar alumnus in applied linguistics, and has published a legal dictionary. She has published essays on national identity myths and on lucid dreaming, a novel on travel and spirituality.
ROBERT WAGGONER serves on the Executive Board of IASD as Treasurer, and graduated from Drake University with a BA in psychology. Co-editor of the quarterly publication, The Lucid Dream Exchange, he has thirty years experience with lucid dreaming, and has presented on this topic to various colleges.
ERIN J. WAMSLEY, PhD is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on memory consolidation during human sleep, and specifically on the relationship of these processes to dreaming.
CAROL D. WARNER, MA (Religious Studies), MA (Clinical Social Work) is a member of IASD who has presented on many aspects of dreaming. She led a highly successful online e-study group for IASD on dreams and spirituality. She worked in the addictions field, and received exgroup work training and experience.
CRAIG SIM WEBB is a past IASD Board member and Director of the DREAMS Foundation (www.dreams.ca). For over a decade, he has participated in research at Stanford University and Montreal’s Sacre-Coeur Dream and Nightmare Lab. Craig is a physicist, bio-medical design engineer, outdoor adventure quest guide, performing/recording artist and budding gourmet chef.
BERNARD WELT, PhD, is a Professor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington DC, USA, the author of Mythomania: Fables, Fantasies, and Sheer Lies in American Popular Art, and a member of the IASD board of directors
PIA E. WIGREN, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with the NYU School of Medicine/ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/ Rockefeller University. She investigated the effect of cocaine on sleep, dreams, cognition and affect, and is studying breast cancer and sleep, as well as epilepsy surgery and dream s.
AMY WILKINSON has a BSc in Psychology from Swansea University, Wales.
JENNIFER M. WINDT, MA, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, studied philosophy and history and is currently writing on dreaming, consciousness, and cognition. She is a member of the MIND Group and the European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences and the Humanities.
ANN SAYRE WISEMAN, MA is an art and dream therapist, painter, author of twelve books including Making Things: The Handbook of Creative Discoveries, Dreams As Metaphor: The Power Of The Image and Nightmare Help: A guide for Adults from Children.
ZHUANGZHUANG JOHANNA XI, is a graduate student in Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, USA, and has a BA in Economics, and BS in Psychology from Peking University.
MING-YIH YEH, PhD is associate professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. A residence of Taiwan, she is interested in doing research on psychology-related topics.
ANTONIO ZADRA, PhD is associate professor at the Université de Montréal’s Department of Psychology and researcher at the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur’s Centre d’étude sommeil. His interests include dream recall, nightmares, sleepwalking and the clinical use of dreams.
MARCO ZANASI, MD is a neurologist, psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. He is Research Professor at the Psychiatric Clinic of Tor Vergata University, Rome studying oneiric activity in normal and pathological minds. He has organized congresses on Analytical Psychology, Group Analysis and Neurophysiology.
LESLEY ZARET, MSW is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, working with adults, adolescents and families, using dream work to deepen the therapeutic process, She conducts projective dream groups, art and dreams workshops and provides dreamwork education and supervision.
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