Dreams & Dreaming: Disciplinary Perspectives & Interdisciplinary Dialogue. (360G-Wellcome-101061_Z_13_Z)

Dreams & Dreaming: Disciplinary Perspectives & Interdisciplinary Dialogue The funding is to support a one-day workshop, 'Dreams & Dreaming: Disciplinary Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Dialogue'. The workshop's aims are to initiate and promote interdisciplinary and practitioner / researcher dialogue and to establish a network of experts. Studying the phenomenon of dreaming can reveal deep and surprising truths about human experience, consciousness, and memory. Academics and practitioner s from disciplines as diverse as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and cultural studies can agree with this: but what are the truths that these various disciplines have discovered and are they in fact compatible with one another? This is an urgent question and one that has the potential to open up new avenues of research and to impact on practice. The workshop will be based around a series of short research presentations by researchers and practitioners whose work centers on the phenomenon of dreaming. Potential contributors include cognitive scientists, practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychologists, psychotherapists, historians of psychoanalysis, philosophers, and cultural historians. Participants will present knowledge, methodologies, puzzles, and insights from their own research area and will be invited to bring their own disciplinary perspective to bear on the material presented by others.