Ernest Hartmann
Ernest Hartmann was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst and sleep researcher.Life and career
Hartmann was born in 1934 in Vienna. His father was Heinz Hartmann, one of the founders of ego psychology. After the beginning of World War II in Europe, he moved with his family to Paris, thence to Switzerland, and finally settled in New York City where he graduated from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
In 1967, Hartmann published his first book called The Biology of Dreaming. He was a psychiatry professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston until retiring in 2012. Hartmann lived in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts. He died on 7 August 2013 as a result of heart failure, at the age of 79.Selected works
