Don Kuiken is professor emeritus in the Department of

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at the

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, Edmonton. He received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1970 from the

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. His research program is a phenomenologically guided blend of two areas: dreaming and literary reading. He has served as the editor of the journal ''Dreaming'' and is member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Currently he is Associate Editor of the journal ''

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''. He is president of the

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, and has published extensively over his main areas of research: research on dreaming, research on reader response, and phenomenological methods.

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