International Association for the Study of Dreams


The International Association for the Study of Dreams is a multi-disciplinary professional nonprofit organization for scientific dream research, founded in 1983 and headquartered in the U.S.
The organization was originally named the Association for the Study of Dreams.
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Scope

Attracting "a 'rainbow coalition' of scientists, scholars, therapists, cultural practitioners, artists, and the general public", the organization publishes scientific research across all dream-related subjects, including dreams in analytical psychology, oneirology, dreamwork, oneiromancy, and lucid dreaming via its:
Writing in 1989, psychology professor, Harry T. Hunt states that "on an organizational level, the Sleep Research Society and its small cluster of researchers focusing on physiological, neurocognitive, and content analysis approaches to dreams have been supplemented by a more eclectic organization, the Association for the Study of Dreams . Within ASD, a diverse group of Freudian, Jungian, existential, and other psychologists interested primarily in dream interpretation and 'dreamwork' has banded together with others attempting to relate dreams to altered states of consciousness and transpersonal psychology, and a small number of srs experimenters."
Writing more recently, in 2017, historian and academic, Jonson Miller states that "he IASD is a scholarly association for the study of dreams, including dream interpretation, dreams in culture, creativity and dreams, the physiology of dreaming, and lucid dreaming. They publish two magazines and a newsletter, hold conferences, and provide classes on dream work. Their website has many useful resources, including bibliographies, videos, podcasts, recordings from past conferences, and even images from dream art exhibitions."

Governance

The nonprofit has historically been led by the following researchers:

Notable members

Media appearances

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