Retired Emeritus Professor from MacEwan University and currently a tutor in CMNS and PSYC at AU. Long professional history teaching in US and Canada. Many publications on dreams and consciousness and most recently on digital life.
Research interests
Dreams
Consciousness
Video games
Digital life
Educational credentials
1973 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Major: graduate work in educational psychology
1974-1976 MS, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Major: general experimental psychology Thesis Title: A Perceptual Defense Approach to the Study of Sex Role Identity, Expectations, and Attitudes
1976-1978 Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Ph.D. in general experimental psychology Major area of interest: social/personality Dissertation Title: A Personality and Cognitive Style Analysis of Lucid Dreaming
Gackenbach, J.I., & Bown, J. (Eds.) (2017). Boundaries of Self & Reality Online: Implications of Digitally Constructed Realities. San Diego: Elsevier/Academic Press.
Gackenbach, J.I. (Ed.) (2012). Video Game Play and Consciousness. Hauppauge NY: NOVA Science publishers.
Gackenbach, J.I. & Snyder, T. (2012; 2019). Play Reality. Edmonton, AB: Original Cliche Entertainment.
Gackenbach, J.I. (Editor) (2007). Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Implication (2nd edition), San Diego: Academic Press. (Translated into Chinese by World Publishing Guangdong Corporation in March, 2014).
Gillespie, Joanie & Gackenbach, J.I. (2007), cyber.rules. NY: Norton. (Translated into Arabic by el-kalema, 2013).
Gackenbach, J.I. (Editor) (1998). Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Implications, San Diego: Academic Press.
Gackenbach, J. I. & Sheikh, A. (Eds.) (1991). Dream images: A call to mental arms, Farmingdale, NY: Baywood.
Gackenbach, J.I. & Bosveld, J. (1989; ebook 2012). Control your dreams, N.Y.: Harper & Row. (translated into German by Christian Stephan for Aurum Verlag GmbH, Braunschweig, German; Translated into Chinese for Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd.)
Gackenbach, J. I. & LaBerge, S. P. (Eds.) (1988). Conscious mind, sleeping brain: Perspectives on lucid dreaming, N.Y.: Plenum.
Gackenbach, J. I. (Ed.), (1987). Sleep and dreams: A sourcebook, N.Y Garland.