Ernest Hartmann, M.D.

Ernest Hartmann fled Austria with his family after the German annexation in 1938. He was four years old. Steeped in psychology from an early age and fascinated by dreams, Hartmann inherited the intellectual legacy of his father, Heinz Hartmann, and his metaphorical grandfather, Sigmund Freud.

Ernest Hartmann is Past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD), and was the first Editor-in-Chief of ASD's journal, Dreaming. Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and former Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, he also maintains a private practice. Hartmann is a renowned expert who has written eleven books and more than 300 journal articles on sleep, dreams, personality and boundaries.