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'This article contemplates the possible relationship of Central Australian "Dreaming," or
Tjukurrpa, to symbol and thought formation in desert Aboriginal culture. Acknowledgement
is given to the diversity and complexity of descriptions ofTjukurrpa. The author is concerned
with how thoughts are made, what they are made of, and how thinking might go wrong,
that is, how disorders of thought in the intercultural matrix might arise. Thinking as a form
of mental activity may be deeply related with the ontopoetic ancestry of language and locations
of human movement and activity. The author suggests that through an analysis of
detailed, grounded, intercultural conversations and an understanding of the structure and
content of Tjukurrpa, non-Indigenous people working in health and law might appreciate
and comprehend Aboriginal thinking and behaviour (and thus be more effective in various
aspects of mutual engagement). The challenge is mutual and reciprocal.' (Source: Editor's abstract)
