Southern California Dreaming
Saturday Sept. 13, 2014
Regional Conference
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Biographical sketch compilation.
Deirdre Barrett, Vita
Education
B.A. Emory University
1974 Major: Psychology
Ph.D. Psychology Department, University of Tennessee
1979 Graduate Program: Clinical Psychology
Internship: Clinical Psychology
University of Colorado Health Science Center
September, 1978 through August, 1979
Clinical, Academic and Administrative Positions
8/88 present Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School ‘88-’95
Clinical Assistant Professor 95-present.
7/816/88 Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
1998 Editor In Chief of Dreaming: Journal of the Assoc.
present for the Study of Dreams
Selected PUBLICATIONS
Barrett, D. L. (Ed.) Trauma and Dreams. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Barrett, D. L. The Committee of Sleep. NY:Random House, 2001
Barrett, D. L. The Hypnotic Dream: Its Content in Comparison to Nocturnal Dreams and Waking Fantasy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1979, Vol. 88, p. 584591.
Barrett, D.L. The 'Committee of Sleep': A Study of Dream Incubation for Problem Solving. Dreaming: J. of the Assoc.
for the Study of Dreams, 1993, 3, p. 115123.
Barrett, D. L. Dreams in Dissociative Disorders. Dreaming: J. of the Assoc. for the Study of Dreams, 1994, Vol 4, No. 3, p. 165177.
Barrett, D. L. The Dream Character as a Prototype for the Multiple Personality "Alter". Dissociation, Vol. 8, March 1995, p. 6168.
Barrett, D. L. Using Hypnosis to work with dreams. Self and Society: A Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 23, p. 25-28, 1996.
Barrett, D. L. The “Royal Road” Becomes a Shrewd Shortcut: The Use of Dreams in Focused Treatment, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Vol. 16, No 1, 2002.
Barrett, D & Behbehani, J. Posttraumatic Nightmares in Kuwait Following the Iraqi Invasion Chapt. in S. Krippner, Ed. Psychological Effects of War on Civilian Populations, Baywood, 2003.
Barrett, D. L. Answers in Your Dreams in Scientific American Mind, Nov/Dec 2011.
Deirdre Barrett, Zach Sogolow, Angela Oh, Jasmine Panton, Malcolm Grayson, & Melanie Justiniano (2013) Content of Dreams from WWII POWs. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, Vol 33, p. 293-204.
Walter Berry
Walter Berry, M.A. is a dream worker specializing in archetypal projective dreamwork. He leads a weekly dream group in the Los Angeles area that has been featured in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He also conducts private consultations on dreams.
He teaches workshops on dreams regionally and internationally. He is often a guest speaker at venues like “The Sex and Culture Series” and “Conversations at Leon’s”, and various other locations.
He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and part of the Executive Committee of the Southern California Regional Dream Conferences of the IASD.
He is also a visual artist and uses his dreams extensively in the creation of his art.
Barbara Bishop
Barbara Bishop, MFT, is the Clinical Director at House of Hope, a residential treatment facility for women addicted to controlled substances. She has studied addicts’ dreams for several years and has published on that subject as well. She teaches a dream class each week to the clients at House of Hope.
Robert Hoss
Robert Hoss, MS, USA, is a Director and Past President of IASD, Director of the DreamScience Foundation for research grants and a faculty member of the Haden Institute. He is author of Dream Language and Dream to Freedom and his work is published in 12 other books and 3 professional Journals.
Athena Kolinski
Athena is a Religious Studies professor at University of Philosophical Research, where her second master’s degree was obtained in Consciousness Studies. Certified in Tarotpy and as a New DreamWork Coach, Athena is an active member of SoCal IASD and the owner of Star Card Consulting (
Michael Lennox
Lennox’s dissertation published by LAP out of Germany. Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream published by Llewellyn in 2011 is now in five languages. Llewellyn’s Complete Dream Dictionary coming in 2015. Lennox leads workshops all over the US and conducts a worldwide practice based in LA.
Geoff Nelson
Rev. Geoff Nelson is a retired Presbyterian pastor in Whittier, California, USA. With over 35 years experience with own dreams, he has a D. Min. degree on “Dream Groups in the Church” and is a trained spiritual director.
Richard Paseman
Richard F. Paseman, Ed.D. is a spiritual director specializing in contemplative retreats, desert wisdom traditions, and spirituality for the second half of life. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Rich utilizes the tools of art, cinema, journal keeping, music, and interfaith traditions to promote inner wholeness.
Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos
Kathleen O’Keefe Kanavos authored SURVIVING CANERLAND which chronicles her
three breast cancer journeys diagnosed by prophetic dreams. She taught Special Education & Psychology at University of South Florida, an R.A. BLOCH Cancer Foundation Phone Counselor, Dream & Cancer Q&A columnist, PATHEOS, BreastCancerYoga,& Dreams Cloud Blogger, IASD presenter, & Radio Host.
Barbara Schiffman
Barbara Schiffman, C.Ht., ARCT (USA) is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Soul Keys Hypnosis Facilitator, and Akashic Records Certified Advanced Teacher (affiliated with Linda Howe's Center for Akashic Studies). She teaches about the Akashic Records in Southern California and nationally. Barbara is also an author, editor, creativity coach and Life&Soul Balance Coach.
Suzanne Strisower
Suzanne Strisower has used “dreamwork” with her clients for the past 25 years as an intuitive and Professional Certified Coach. She has a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology specializing in Depth Psychology and Dreamwork from Pacifica Graduate Institute. The author of three books including an award winning life purpose workbook.
Kelly Sullivan Walden
Kelly Sullivan Walden is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, founder of Dream-Life Coach Training, and author of seven books, including the bestselling, I Had the Strangest Dream, It’s All In Your Dreams, and Dreaming Heaven. Kelly has appeared on Dr. Oz, facilitates dream workshops, and hosts “The D-Spot” radio show.
Judy White, PhD
Judith White, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and certified Embodied Imagination therapist in Los Angeles, maintains a wide-ranging private practice. Judith uses Embodied Imagination to help people, carry the wisdom of the dream realm into waking life. As volunteer for The Soldiers Project, she also works with veterans and their nightmares.