ABSTRACT
Gordon Lawrence had a strong desire to establish social dreaming as a tool or method that could be used in organisational consultancy. The psycho-social, in its attempt to address the balance between the psychoanalytically informed researcher and the social scientist, is potential territory for social dreaming as a research method and the pursuit of new kinds of data and a new way of approaching knowledge. Ruth Balogh and Domenico Agresta have shown how social dreaming can be used in research that is psycho-social in attitude and as such can be used for data collection and receive validation from academic peers who pursue research from the perspective. Agresta combines a psychoanalytically informed approach with anthropology, where the dreams are the research data that enables an enquiry into the nature and the perception of time for a traditional Italian community. There is a developing interest in the nature of the data that can be collected through the use of social dreaming research.
