Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. is an author and psychologist who teaches at
Harvard Medical School. She is known for her research on
dreams,
hypnosis and imagery and has written on
evolutionary psychology. Barrett is a Past President of The International Association for the Study of Dreams and of the
American Psychological Association’s Div. 30, The Society for Psychological Hypnosis. She has written four books for the general public:
The Pregnant Man and Other Cases From a Hypnotherapist's Couch (1998),
The Committee of Sleep (2001),
Waistland (2007), and
Supernormal Stimuli (2010). 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). 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.