American psychologist who studies dreams, hypnosis and imagery
Deirdre Barrett
Occupation
Author
Academic work
Main interests
Dreams
hypnosis
imagery
Hypnosis
Applications
Animal magnetism
Hypnotherapy
Stage hypnosis
Self-hypnosis
Hypnosurgery
Origins/History
History of hypnosis
Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism
Key figures
Theodore Xenophon Barber
Deirdre Barrett
Hippolyte Bernheim
Gil Boyne
James Braid
John Milne Bramwell
William Joseph Bryan
Jean-Martin Charcot
Émile Coué
Dave Elman
Milton H. Erickson
James Esdaile
John Elliotson
Sigmund Freud
Erika Fromm
Ernest Hilgard
Josephine R. Hilgard
Clark L. Hull
Pierre Janet
Irving Kirsch
Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault
Franz Mesmer
Martin Theodore Orne
Charles Poyen
Morton Prince
Marquis of Puységur
Andrew Salter
Theodore R. Sarbin
Nicholas Spanos
André Muller Weitzenhoffer
Related topics
Hypnotic susceptibility
Suggestion
Age regression in therapy
Hypnotic induction
Neuro-linguistic programming
Hypnotherapy in the United Kingdom
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Deirdre Barrett is an American author and psychologist known for her research on dreams, hypnosis and imagery, and has written on evolutionary psychology. Barrett is a teacher at Harvard Medical School,[1] and a past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and of the American Psychological Association’s Div. 30, the Society for Psychological Hypnosis. She is editor-in-chief of the journal Dreaming: The Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams and a consulting editor for Imagination, Cognition, and Personality and The International Journal for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
She has written five books for the general public: The Pregnant Man and Other Cases From a Hypnotherapist's Couch (1998), The Committee of Sleep (2001), Waistland (2007), Supernormal Stimuli (2010), and Pandemic Dreams (2020). She is the editor of four academic books: Trauma and Dreams (1996), The New Science of Dreaming (2007), Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy (2010), and The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams (2012).
DeirdreBarrett is an American author and psychologist known for her research on dreams, hypnosis and imagery, and has written on evolutionary psychology...
Their Evolutionary Purpose is a book by DeirdreBarrett published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2010. Barrett is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard...
delivered in a more "authoritarian" manner. Harvard hypnotherapist DeirdreBarrett writes that most modern research suggestions are designed to bring...
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(the subjective clarity of that state) Later, in 1992, a study by DeirdreBarrett examined whether lucid dreams contained four "corollaries" of lucidity:...
having grown up with parents who encouraged imaginative play. In 1991, DeirdreBarrett examined a larger group of extremely high hypnotizables and confirmed...
Problem-Solving—and How You Can Too is a book by DeirdreBarrett published by Crown/Random House in 2001. Barrett is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard...
depicted in television and online media. As Harvard hypnotherapist DeirdreBarrett points out in 'Hypnosis in Popular Media', the vast majority of these...
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come to the correct conclusion. In a study by Harvard psychologist DeirdreBarrett, 2,000 dreams from 200 subjects were examined and it was found that...
Trauma and Dreams is a 1996 book edited by DeirdreBarrett and published by Harvard University Press. Chapter authors are prominent psychologists and...
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dialect in a lingering, haunting layer of spectral sound." Harvard's DeirdreBarrett also reviewed the film positively. “'Each man kills the thing he loves'...
with enhancing their creativity. A 2001 study by Harvard psychologist DeirdreBarrett found that, while problems can also be solved in full-blown dreams...
satisfied." Later reception has been more mixed. Clinical psychologist DeirdreBarrett emphasizes the hyper-(un)realistic use of verbal hypnotic induction...
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issue when going to sleep. In a study at Harvard Medical School, Dr. DeirdreBarrett had her students focus on a problem, such as an unsolved homework assignment...
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