Ph D Mena E PottsAuthor Mena E. Potts holds a Bachelor of Science in Social Administration from Ohio State University, a Masters in Psychiatric Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in the Psychology of Dreams and Dreaming from the Union Instituteand University, the first ever doctorate in applied dream psychology. She is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, a Licensed Independent Social Worker, a retired therapist and an author, lecturer, faculty member and the founder of The Dream Center, where she conducts research in precognitive dreams and training in the psychology of dreams and dreaming. The author did advanced studies at the C.G. Jung Analytic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, The Alexander Technique from London, England, the East-West Psychology Center in Zollikon Switzerland and the Manjushri Institute and Residential College in Ulverston, England. She completed an eight-month experiential dream group internship at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in New York City, participated in Psi Dream Research at the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City and completed the Ullman Experiential Dream Group Leadership Training Program and Supervisory Dream Group Leadership Training Program. While a board member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, IASD, she initiated the Association's first American Psychological Association's Co-Sponsored Continuing Education Programs, for which she received an award from IASD. The author is graduate of the Rutgers School of Alcohol Studies, has been a research associate of The Psychohistory Forum, a participant in research, publications and conference presentations in Psychohistorical Dreamwork developed by Dr. Paul Elovitz, founding faculty member of Ramapo College, psychoanalyst and editor. She has also been an instructor and lecturer at colleges and universities, and developed a course on adult schizophrenia for the University of Pittsburgh's Competency Training Program. The author's advanced seminars and workshops include, among others, the American Psychological Association, the National Association of Social Workers, American Group Psychotherapy Association (where she also presented at annual meeting of the Association), the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York City, The Association for Humanistic Psychology, The International Psychohistorical Association, The American Academy of Psychoanalysis in New York, The National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York, a weekend workshop in Humanistic Psychology workshop conducted by Carl Rogers at Columbia University in New York City, The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, Psychosynthesis Institute in San Francisco, Reality Therapy by William Glasser, M.D., the founder of Reality Therapy, and Encounter Techniques conducted by. William Schutz, Ph.D., author of the best-selling book, Joy. The author was inducted into Alpha Kappa Honorary Society and Sigma Alpha Sigma Honorary Society at the Ohio State University. She was awarded a full National Mental Health Scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Social Work for Excellence in Academic Achievement. She was also awarded a Scholarship by the Ohio State Department of Public Health to the Rutgers School of Alcohol Studies from which she was graduated. The author was instrumental in creating the first mental health service in her community, and in the creation of her community's Community Action Program, for which she received several commendations for implementing the program. She also wrote the grant for the community's first Head Start Program and founded The Child Development Association. She was honored to receive a National Award for her Head Start grant application, presented by R. Shriver, Director of the National Office of Economic Opportunity and brother-in-law of former President John F. Kennedy. Read More Read Less