Introduction to Social Dreaming

Gordon Lawrence was a managing partner of Social Dreaming Ltd, London, and a visiting professor at the University of Northumberland, Newcastle, the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, and at La Sapienza, the University of Rome. Formerly, he held a visiting professorship at Cranfield University, Bedford. He was on the editorial board of Free Associations (UK), Freie Assoziation (Germany) and Organizational and Social Dynamics (UK). He was a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Socio-Analysis and a Distinguished Member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

Preface -- The history of social dreaming -- Social dreaming in a company -- What is social dreaming? -- The marvelling mind of humans -- The underestimated value of unconscious thinking -- The differences of consciousness in relation to the unconscious -- Working with the social dreaming matrix -- Social dreaming as it illuminates political realities -- Social dreaming, quantum reality, and the digital age -- Working hypotheses on social dreaming -- Case study -- Social dreaming as the shadow of the future -- Conclusion -- The last word -- How does a social dreaming matrix work? -- Applications of social dreaming