Iain R. Edgar

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Iain R. Edgar is affiliated with the following schools: University of York, University of Oxford, Durham University, Keele University

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Iain R. Edgar

Anthropology

#656

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#902

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Social Anthropology

#43

World Rank

#54

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According to Wikipedia, Iain Edgar was a social anthropologist at Durham University. He was an expert in the field of dreams and dreaming, and a specialist in altered states of consciousness and mental health. Starting his career in social work, Edgar received a PhD from the University of Keele, where he studied under Ronnie Frankenberg. His thesis Dreamwork, Anthropology and the Caring Professions: A Cultural Approach to Dreamwork discusses a wide range of psychodynamic possibilities and develops a method to work with dreams within a professional care environment.

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Iain R. Edgar's Published Works

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The Anthropology of Welfare (1998) (40)
A Guide to Imagework: Imagination-Based Research Methods (2004) (40)
The Imagework Method in Health and Social Science Research (1999) (28)
Psychology and the Soul: A Study of the Origin, Conceptual Evolution and Nature of the Soul (1999) (23)
Istikhara: The Guidance and Practice of Islamic Dream Incubation Through Ethnographic Comparison (2010) (23)
The ‘true dream’ in contemporary Islamic/Jihadist dreamwork: a case study of the dreams of Taliban leader Mullah Omar (2006) (21)
The Dream Will Tell: Militant Muslim Dreaming in the Context of Traditional and Contemporary Islamic Dream Theory and Practice (2004) (20)
Educational histories of European social anthropology (2003) (17)
The Inspirational Night Dream in the Motivation and Justification of Jihad (2007) (13)
Dreamwork, anthropology and the caring professions: A cultural approach to dreamwork (1995) (12)
Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education (2004) (11)
The dreams of Islamic State. (2015) (9)
The Dream in Islam: From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration (2011) (9)
Research and practice in the anthropology of welfare (2002) (8)
Shaping a nation : an examination of education in Pakistan (2010) (8)
Imprints of Dreaming (2010) (7)
Invisible Elites? Authority and the Dream (2002) (7)
Dream imagery becomes social experience : The cultural elucidation of dream interpretation (2002) (7)
Dreamwork, Anthropology and the Caring Professions. (1998) (5)
On Hallucination, Intutition, and the Becoming of 'O' (1999) (4)
Overtures of Paradise : Night Dreams and Islamic Jihadist Militancy (2008) (4)
The Islamic Dream Tradition and Jihadi Militancy (2017) (3)
The cosmopolitan and the noumenal : a case study of Islamic jihadist night dreams as reported sources of spiritual and political inspiration. (2009) (2)
The Dream in Islam (2022) (1)
Using experiential research methods : The potential contribution of humanistic groupwork methods to anthropology and welfare research lain R. Edgar (2002) (1)
The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC) Conference 27-31 March 1996 (1996) (1)
Lohmann, Roger Ivar (ed.). 2003. Dream travellers. Sleep experiences and culture in the western Pacific . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. x + 246 pp. Pb.: £16.99. ISBN: 1 4039 6330 4 (2005) (0)
Encountering the dream: Intersecting anthropological and psychoanalytical approaches (2003) (0)
Mental Health and the Built Environment. By David Halpern. Pp. 240. (Taylor & Francis, Basingstoke, 1995.) £39.00, hardback; £13.95, paperback. (1997) (0)
The human factor (1998) (0)
Arts and decoration: From high art to humble memorabilia (1998) (0)
Society, culture and politics : examining education in Pakistan. (2010) (0)
Interior features: From floors to furniture (1998) (0)
Landscape, gardens and the space between the buildings (1998) (0)
Professional appointments: The ‘design team’ (1998) (0)
Colour and other factors (1998) (0)
The tooth butterfly, or rendering a sensible account from the imaginative present (2003) (0)
Interior features: From floors to furniture (1998) (0)
Principles of interior renovation: The role of the interior designer (1998) (0)
An anthropological analysis of peper harow therapeutic community with particular reference to the use of myth, ritual and symbol (1986) (0)
Coding and revenue: impact on Portsmouth Breast Unit (2009) (0)
Chapter 4 THE COSMOPOLITAN AND THE NOUMENAL : CASE STUDY OF ISLAMIC JIHADIST NIGHT DREAMS AS REPORTED SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL AND POLITICAL INSPIRATION (2009) (0)
Experiences of Synchronicity and Anthropological Endeavours : An Anthropologist Goes Weird Invoking the Rational in Acknowledging the Irrational : A Haunting in Malta And more (2013) (0)
Departmental components of the average hospital: From reception to chapels (1998) (0)
Imagework method and potential applications in health, social sciences and social care research : journeying with a question. (2004) (0)
We Thank Our Reviewers (2017) (0)
Suhr, Christian. Descending with angels: Islamic exorcism and psychiatry: a film monograph. xx, 219 pp., illus., bibliogr. Manchester: Univ. Press, 2019. £25.00 (paper) (2021) (0)
The legacy and appearance of hospital buildings (1998) (0)

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