Goodnight, Nightmares: Understanding and Managing Disturbing Dreams

Name: Goodnight, Nightmares: Understanding and Managing Disturbing Dreams
Start: 2025-03-06T19:00:00-06:00
Location: TrimTab Brewing Company

Schedule

Thu, 06 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

TrimTab Brewing Company | Birmingham, AL

We're Discourse BHAM, a pop-up public lecture series bringing the most interesting academic talks to Birmingham's bars & breweries. It's like a college class, but there's drinking.
Tickets are $15. Seating is limited.
What do your nightmares really mean? Are they random, or is there more to the story? In this illuminating talk, a celebrated clinical psychologist and director of a leading university behavioral medicine clinic dives into the fascinating world of nightmares. You’ll discover what sets nightmares apart from those bizarre but harmless dreams, why our minds conjure these vivid nighttime terrors, and how they might serve a deeper psychological purpose.
But it doesn’t stop there—this isn’t just theory. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to prevent nightmares and manage their impact, helping you reclaim peaceful nights of sleep. Whether you’re curious about your own dreams or looking to better understand this universal yet mysterious experience, this talk promises insights and tools to put your restless nights to rest.
Christina Pierpaoli Parker, PhD, DBSM is an assistant professor of clinical psychology and a board-certified behavioral sleep medicine doctor in UAB’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology. Her broad clinical research interests include developing, implementing, and evaluating brief behavioral interventions in medical settings to prevent and treat comorbid psychiatric and chronic health conditions, including depression, insomnia, and chronic pain. She serves as the Clinical Director of UAB’s Integrated Behavioral Medicine Service (iBeMS), which provides brief, evidence-based behavioral services in primary and specialty care settings through UAB’s health system. She is frequently featured in popular news media including The New York Times, CNN, and CNBC and has a weekly radio segment in Birmingham, Alabama, where she practices, offering evidence-based and actionable mental health tools.