HIGHLIGHTS AND ADDITIONAL PRESS CONTACT
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Guy Corneau, MA, is a Montrealer. He titled his Keynote address, "Dreams of Meaning; A Personal Experience " He describes, "All my life long I've searched the meaning of dreams and finally found out that dreams give meaning to our lives. I plan to devote this lecture to the meaning of illness and dreams that come along. Every illness of the body is a soul illness as well. The link between the psyche and the matter is weakened and the suffering body makes it clear. To find meaning in our dreams is not always an easy task. Dreams are helpful when attempting to understand what was constellated at the psychic level that has sink into the body.
"This lecture will not bring up any studies results nor will it state any laboratory research. It will be about my own journey through cancer and focus on some significant dreams that came along with it giving meaning to the illness and to the treatments when sometimes there didn't seem to be any. I will also talk about conscious visualizations that helped me to heal as well as imaginary reality that I've used to transform my inner states during this dangerous journey."
Guy Corneau 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, Lessons In Love: The Transformation of Spirit Through Intimacy. (See biography below). IASD is proud to announce and to welcome The C G Jung Society of Montreal as a co-sponsor of Guy Corneau’s Keynote Address.
Milton Kramer, M.D., will present on the topic, “The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration", based on his book of the same name. The presentation will begin with a brief review of the historical interest in dreaming and why we study dreaming. It will place dreaming during sleep and give evidence to support our ability to collect and quantify dreaming. Work will be presented showing that dreams reflect psychological differences are orderly not random and can be searched for meaning from many points of view. Dreams respond to emotionally significant experiences and have a systematic relationship to waking consciousness, being reactive to pre-sleep thought and proactive to post-sleep affect. The many functions that have been posited for dreaming and the biological concomitants for the dream experience will be described.
Milton Kramer is currently Visiting Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine, University of Illinois in Chicago. (See biography below).
Montreal’s own Tore Nielsen, Ph.D., will deliver his presentation titled “Normal and pathological dreaming: Current research from the Montreal Dream & Nightmare Laboratory”. He will be speaking about the latest research findings from his dream laboratory dealing with both normal and disturbed dreaming. Some of these studies include: the effects of virtual reality exposure on dreaming; tests of an emotion-regulation function of dreaming; the epidemiology of bad dreams in preschoolers; the pathophysiology of nightmares in adults; and the Baby-in-Bed (BIB) nightmares of new mothers.
Tore Nielsen, Ph.D., is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montreal, Director of the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory at the Sacré-Coeur Hospital Research Center, and a Research Professor of the Quebec Mental Health Research Fund. Further information about his work can be found at http://www.jtkresearch.com/dreamlab/. He is a past member of the IASD Board of Directors 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, quantitative EEG analysis and introspective methods. He has authored over a hundred scientific papers and book chapters on dream and nightmare science. Tore Nielsen moved to Montreal in 1988 and founded the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory in Montreal in 1991. The 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, to develop treatments for dream-related health problems, and to educate the public about the important role dreams and nightmares play in psychological life. Email: tore.nielsen@umontreal.ca
Biographies:
Guy Corneau MA.,
Guy Corneau 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, Lessons In Love: The Transformation of Spirit Through Intimacy
An international lecturer, he has given hundreds of lectures and animated workshops on personal development throughout the world. Mediatized personality, he was the host of the TV program "Guy Corneau en toute confidence" for 5 years and "Guy Corneau en atelier". The latter series is available on DVD. Socially committed, he is the founder of Réseau Hommes Québec and Réseau Femmes Québec consisting of networks of women and men involved in personal growth. This kind of work has been an inspiration for many other francophone countries.
From 1997 to 2006, Guy Corneau, along with twenty artists and therapists created Productions Coeur.com to offer a new style of lectures, workshops and seminars as well as trips with a view to integrate psychological insight, and creative expression to create the opening of the heart. This organization continues to offer workshops conducted by the very same people who have been close to Guy Corneau for all these years.
Very few people 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 that was 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. Email...
Milton Kramer M.D.,
Milton Kramer, M.D., is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a past president of the ASD, Dr. Kramer 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, which is now the Academy of Sleep Medicine. In 1984 he opened a Sleep Center at Bethesda Hospital. He remained in that position until he retired and moved to New York in 1999. He was appointed Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati in 2000. Currently Dr. Kramer is currently 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 having published “The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration”, 163 articles, 126 abstracts, and 60 book reviews and discussions dealing primarily with dreams and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders and other health and health related social issues. He has recently published an article on vigilance in PTSD, a review article on the long- term use of hypnotics in chronic insomnia and an article on dream content predicting therapeutic change in psychotherapy. Email...
Tore Nielsen, Ph.D.,
Tore Nielsen, Ph.D., is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Universite de Montreal, Director of the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory, and Research Professor of the Quebec Mental Health Research Fund. He is a past member of the IASD Board of Directors; 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 EEG analyses. The Dream & Nightmare Laboratory, established in Montreal's Sacré-Coeur Hospital in 1991, is dedicated to the scientific study of dreaming and dream disturbances, to the training of students, researchers and health professionals in the techniques and applications of dream science, to the treatment of dream-related health problems, and to public education about the important role dreams and nightmares play in psychological life. Email...
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Conference Host: Layne Dalfen
Conference Program Chair: Laurette Dupuis
Media Contacts:
Montreal English Language:
Layne Dalfen 514-898-9150
Montreal French Language:
Nicole Gratton 514-326-6136
National: IASD Publicity Chair:
Jean Campbell
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