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In this fascinating collection, the principles of social dreaming are explored to uncover shared anxieties and prejudices, suggest likely responses, enhance cultural surveys, inform managerial policies and embody community affiliation.
List of contents
Dedication Preface Author Biographies Introduction Section 1. Towards a Philosophy of Science in Support of Social Dreaming Chapter 1 Dreams and Dreaming: A Socioanalytic and Semiotic Perspective
Chapter 2 Associative Thinking: A Deleuzian Perspective on Social Dreaming
Section 2. The Nature and Processes of Social Dreaming: Theory and Research Chapter 3 The Dreaming Body Yearning to Belong to a Larger Social Body
Chapter 4 Renewing the Land: The Dreaming Mind in Community
Chapter 5 An Integrative Theory of Dreaming Underlying Social Dreaming
Chapter 6 An Action Research Study of Dream-Sharing as Socially-Constituted Practice
Chapter 7 Festino di San Silvestro: Rites and Social Dreaming
Chapter 8 Looking for Treasure in Dream Water
Section 3. Social Dreaming Practice Chapter 9 "Are You Sharing a Dream?" - Social Dreaming in a Community
Chapter 10 London Dreaming
Chapter 11 Social Spaces for Social Dreaming
Chapter 12 Peripatetic Social Dreaming: An Exploration of Social Dreaming Outside a Formal Social Dreaming Setting
Chapter 13 Dreams, Space, Context and Identity in the Workplace
Chapter 14 What Now? Future Dreams
About the author
Dr. Susan Long is Director of Research at the National Institute for Organisation Dynamics Australia. She conducts research in organisational change and collaborative dynamics, and supervises research candidates (susan.long@nioda.org.au). She is president of the Gordon Lawrence Foundation for the promotion of social dreaming and a past president of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations. She is also an organisational consultant in private practice.
Dr. Julian Manley works at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His research focusses on psychosocial applications of visual methods and Deleuzian perspectives, with a particular emphasis on social dreaming. He is Vice-Chair and Academic Research Lead of the Gordon Lawrence Foundation for the Promotion of Social Dreaming.
Summary
In this fascinating collection, the principles of social dreaming are explored to uncover shared anxieties and prejudices, suggest likely responses, enhance cultural surveys, inform managerial policies and embody community affiliation.
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"This is an important book that extends the horizons envisioned by Gordon Lawrence. Dreams are overdetermined events that condense many divergent strands of thought into one remarkable internal event. ’Social dreaming’ theorists analyze the way dreams include social events in their matrix. At a time when there is widespread distress in societies around the globe, a work such as this is timely and useful." --Christopher Bollas
