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Sleep and dreams
Tuesday 11 December 2012, at 20,30
What is the importance of dreaming? The definition of the neurobiological mechanisms of dreaming as well as its psychoanalytical significance and clinical use, are all complementary aspects of the fascinating and still, partly, obscure world of dreams. How close are we to inventing the "dream machine", the hardware system, the brain functions that support oneiric experience? Is dreaming a territory suitable for scientific research? What is the role of dreams in psychoanalysis? We will try to find the answer to these and many more questions, with the help of Prof. Silvia Andreassi, psychoanalyst, and Prof. Luigi De Grannaro, sleep psycho-physiologist.
Silvia Andreassi
She teaches at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at the University of Rome "Sapienza" where she holds various courses focused on Clinical Psychology. She is part of the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, where she does her research work, consultant activity and brief psychotherapy. She is member of the Italian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Childhood and Adolescence (AIPPI) and Candidate member of the Italian Society for Psychoanalysis (SPI). She has several years of experience on matters of empirical verification in the process and outcome of psychotherapy. She is currently coordinating research programs on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, experienced by political refugees and victims of torture.
Luigi De Gennaro
Professor of Psychology, Physiological psychology and Psychophysiology of normal and pathological sleep. Graduated in experimental psychology in Rome. Director of the Sleep Laboratory in the Psychology Department at the University of Rome "Sapienza" (
w3.uniroma1.it/labsonno/Frameset1.htm). He is an expert at normal sleep and sleep disorders. He is very active in scientific publishing and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Sleep Research. He is the author of 500 publications, of which more than 100 are in peer-reviewed international journals. He is also involved in scientific dissemination of neuroscience, particularly in the study of sleep and sleep disorders (
w3.uniroma1.it/labsonno/media.htm).
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