Complaints about the difficulty in sleeping have been skyrocketing in the last decade, with insomnia becoming the norm rather than the exception. Changes in the tempo and pressure of modern life no doubt play their part here, but what of the psychical sources of lack of sleep?What is it that allows us to sleep and what, then, can disrupt this? What role do dreams play as ‘guardians of sleep’ and what is it that wakes us up?

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9.30 – 9.45	Registration and coffee	Anouchka Grose
9.45 – 10.00	Welcome	Anne Worthington – Chair, CFAR
10.00 – 12.00	Chair: Kristina Valendinova (CFAR)
	Psychoanalysis and Insomnia	Darian Leader – Psychoanalyst, CFAR
	Cacosomnia	Vincent Dachy – Psychoanalyst, CFAR
12.00– 1.45	Lunch Break (NB: lunch not included)
1.45 – 3.45	Chair: Anouchka Grose (CFAR)
	Darling Insomnia	Marie Darrieussecq – Writer, Psychoanalyst, Paris
	Insomnia Begins in the Cradle: Creating a Narrative	Chloe Aridjis – Writer, London
	The Uncanny, Anxiety and Lack of Sleep	Anne Worthington – Psychoanalyst, CFAR
3.45 – 4.00	Tea break
4.00 – 5.00	Speakers panel chaired by Kenneth Theron (CFAR)