Dreams can be daunting and can be scary. Yet dreams might reveal a great deal of information - they are the language that our unconscious use to tell us how we feel "inside"
DREAMING AUTOIMMUNITY is a research project aimed at testing the hypothesis that dream exploration could support the emotional wellbeing of patients suffering from autoimmune.
The main question we are trying to address is whether dreams in autoimmune patients hold a particular meaning to the patients.
The second objective of this proposal is to facilitate the creation of self-supporting patient groups that can meet regularly.
DREAMING AUTOIMMUNITY is a research project aimed at testing the hypothesis that dream exploration could support the emotional wellbeing of patients suffering from autoimmune.
The main question we are trying to address is whether dreams in autoimmune patients hold a particular meaning to the patients.
The second objective of this proposal is to facilitate the creation of self-supporting patient groups that can meet regularly.
The dreaming autoimmunity team
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Fulvio D’Acquisto is Professor of Immunopharmacology at the William Harvey Research Institute, which he joined in 2003. He graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1993 and during his MSc and PhD in experimental pharmacology he investigated how to control acute and chronic inflammation. During his post-doctoral training at Yale University he investigated novel approaches to treat autoimmune disorders. Fulvio is passionate about understanding the cross talk between body and mind and is currently investigating how emotions can influence the function and development of the immune system and vice versa. The long-term aim of his research is to exploit both the emotional and immunological systems as gateway for the discovery and identification of novel therapeutic approaches for modern diseases.
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Nigel Hamilton, Ph.D, is the Director of the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education and Dream Research Institute (DRI), a Transpersonal Psychotherapy Training Centre and Clinic in London, where he lectures and practices as a Psychotherapist; UK representative for Sufi Order international; originally trained as a Physicist, working at the MIT for the use of light in Energy Storage Research. He is the author of the recently published Awakening Through Dreams: The Journey Through the Inner Landscape (2014).
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Mary, a UKCP registered psychotherapist, co-founded the Dream Research Instituteat the CCPE with Nigel Hamilton. She also runs the London-based charity HELP Counselling Centre. Mary has presented and led workshops on lucid dreams and alchemy at conferences in the US and Europe. Her writings on lucid dreaming have appeared in a variety of publications. Mary’s exploration of lucidity has led her to develop and teach the practice of ‘Lucid Surrender’.
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