Alan Siegel, Ph.D., is an adult and child psychologist with over 30 years of teaching and publishing on dream-related topics. He is the author of DREAM WISDOM: UNCOVERING LIFE’S ANSWERS IN YOUR DREAMS (Celestial Arts, 2003). Dr. Siegel is a former president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and Editor-Emeritus of the IASD magazine, Dream Time.   

He stars in and is featured as a regular commentator on the new Discovery Health Channel program, DREAM DECODERS. His commentaries on post-9-11 nightmares, children's dreams, and dreams interpretation have been featured on NBC's Today Show as well as CNN News, PBS, NPR, the Discovery Channel's The Power of Dreams series, and NBC's prime time special, The Secret World of Dreams He was the Creative Consultant for the award-winning HBO video, Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepy Time Tales. His research and teachings on dreams have been featured in dozens of publications as diverse as Readers Digest, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald,  Bottom Line Personal, McCall's, Self, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Working Woman, Parenting, Family Circle, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Newsweek, National Geographic for Kids, and Johns Hopkins Magazine

 Dr. Siegel is a licensed psychologist practicing psychotherapy and psychological assessment of children and adults in Berkeley and San Francisco. He is Assistant Clinical Professor, at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology. He is an Adjunct Faculty member at Alliant University's, California School of Professional Psychology and lives with wife and two daughters in Berkeley.

 Alan Siegel's prior books include Dreams That Can Change Your Life: Navigating Life's Passages through Turning Point Dreams, and Dreamcatching: Every Parent's Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children's Dreams and Nightmares which was an American Library Association recommended book. These books have been translated into 4 languages including German, Chinese, Spanish, and Italian. He has also contributed a chapter to Trauma and Dreams by Deirdre Barrett (Boston : Harvard University, 1994) and wrote the introduction to Dream Work: The Royal Road by Clara Hill (Washington: American Psychological Association, 2003). He was the guest editor of a special issue on Children’s Dreams and Nightmares of the academic journal, DREAMING, (Washington: American Psychological Association, 2003).

Alan Siegel's research has included the first systematic study of the dreams of expectant fathers. His research revealed that men have unique dream patterns during pregnancy that suggest a profound emotional involvement from the earliest days of the pregnancy. In his book, Dream Wisdom, he describes how awareness of the "secret life of the expectant father" can help men overcome emotional alienation and enhance their connection to their wife and child.

His 1991 research on the nightmares of the Oakland Firestorm survivors was a front-page Associated Press story and was featured on CNN Headline News and on many local and regional print and broadcast media. His research illuminated the patterns in trauma survivors’ dreams by studying two week dream journals. He also discovered that survivors whose houses did not burn had hidden symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and suffered from nightmares as bad or worse that those who lost their homes. This was due to the fact that they did not receive emotional support and validations for the emotional traumas and losses they suffered.

In October 2001, Dr. Siegel was invited back to appear on NBC's Today Show to provide information and reassurance about the epidemic of nightmares in adults and children all over the world after the terrorists attacks of September 2001. He also contributed to the International Association for the Study of Dreams' online nightmare page which provided guidance for understanding and resolving nightmares in the post-9-11 era.

 Alan Siegel is on the three stars in the Discovery Health Channel’s new series, Dream Decoders which has a sneak preview on August 17, 2005 and premieres with a three episode mini-series on November 1, 8, 15, 2005. Shows on Discovery Health Channel can be repeated 3-4 times in the day or two following the show—so check you local listings for show times.

Alan Siegel, Ph.D.,