Dr. Horst Kächele Talks “Sleep, Dreams, and Dreaming”
< 1 min readYEREVAN, Armenia – On September 22, 2015, the American University of Armenia (AUA) College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) held a lecture on “Sleep, Dreams, and Dreaming,” with speaker Dr. Horst Kächele.
The lecture, which was open to the public, brought in a full audience of people interested in the psychology of dreaming. Dr. Kächele is known for his decades-long commitment to research, his constant efforts to create a methodology for the evaluation of psychoanalytic progress, the co-development of the Ulm Text Bank, and his vigor in the word-wide promotion of empirical investigation in psychoanalysis.
The subjects of his publications include psychoanalytic process and outcome research, somato-psychic topics in Bone Marrow Transplantation and eating disorders, and clinical attachment research. Dr. Kächele is the co-author (with Helmut Thomä) of the Ulm textbook on psychoanalytic therapy, which has been translated into 15 languages, including Armenian.
Dr. Kächele was also Chief of the Center for Psychotherapy Research in Stuttgart from 1988-2004, Visiting Professor at University College London in the Psychoanalysis Unit from 1995-2000, Honorary Professor of the Faculty for Psychoanalytic Medicine at the University of St. Petersburg in 1996, and Profesor visitande permanente der Universidad de Chile in 2005.
Founded in 1991, the American University of Armenia (AUA) is a private, independent university located in Yerevan, Armenia and affiliated with the University of California. AUA provides a global education in Armenia and the region, offering high-quality, graduate and undergraduate studies, encouraging civic engagement, and promoting public service and democratic values.
