Montague Ullman
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Montague Ullman
(1916-)
Psychiatrist, parapsychologist, and trustee of the American Society for Psychical Research. He was born on September 9, 1916, in New York City and studied at the City College of New York (B.S., 1935), New York University College of Medicine (M.D., 1938), and New York Medical College (1948). After graduation, he joined the psychoanalytic faculty of New York Medical College (1950-62). Having encountered psi events in his counseling work, he began to work with Gardner Murphy in exploring ESP experimentally. With Murphy and Laura Dale, he helped establish the medical section of the ASPR. The section lasted until 1953.
That same year, the REM (or rapid eye movement) stage of sleep was discovered. Ullman soon had the idea of using REM sleep in a controlled experiment in telepathy. With funds provided by the Parapsychology Foundation, Ullman, Karlis Osis, and E. Douglas Dean carried out the initial experiments. Murphy then arranged for a large grant for the establishment of the famous Dream Laboratory at Maimonides Hospital in New York City. Ullman became its initial director and an associate professor of psychiatry at Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York. The work of the dream laboratory produced some striking results, leading Ullman to conclude that altered states of consciousness, such as dreaming, were associated with ESP.
In 1966 Ullman was elected president of the Parapsychological Association. He is the author of numerous papers and several books, the most important for parapsychology being his work on dream telepathy.
Sources:
Ullman, Montague. "On the Occurrence of Telepathic Dreams." Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (April 1959).
Ullman, Montague, and Roberto Cavanna, eds. Proceedings of an International Conference on Hypnosis, Drugs, Dreams and Psi: Psi and Altered States of Consciousness. New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 1968.
Ullman, Montague, and Stanley Krippner. Dream Studies and Telepathy: An Experimental Approach. New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 1970.
Ullman, Montague, Stanley Krippner, and Alan Vaughan. Dream Telepathy. 1979. Reprint, Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1985.
Ullman, Montague, and Nan Zimmerman. Working with Dreams. London: Hutchinson, 1983.
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Montague Ullman
Montague Ullman (September 9, 1916 – June 7, 2008) was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and parapsychologist who founded the Dream Laboratory at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and for over three decades actively promoted public interest in dreams and dream sharing groups.
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Montague Ullman
Ullman received his Bachelor of Science degree from the College of the City of New York in 1935 and graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 1938. Ullman completed training in neurology and psychiatry and, after returning from military service, entered private practice in 1946. He completed his psychoanalytic training at the New York Medical College and served on the psychoanalytic faculty of that institution for 12 years, beginning in 1950. In the 1960s he pursued psychosomatic research in dermatology at the Skin and Cancer Unit of Bellevue Hospital and was associated with the Bellevue Stroke Study for four years. In 1961 he also founded one of the first sleep laboratories in New York City at the Maimonides Medical Center, devoted to the experimental study of dreams and telepathy.
Ullman resigned from Maimonides in 1974 and, since then, was engaged in work on dreams and dreaming. He was in the forefront of the movement to stimulate public interest in dreams and to encourage the development of dream sharing groups. Working in a small group setting that he believed to be both safe and effective, Ullman spent the last three decades of his life leading such groups both in the United States and overseas.
Ullman was also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and was a president of both the Parapsychological Association and of the American Society for Psychical Research.[1]
Books
- Ullman, Montague & Zimmerman, Nan. Working with Dreams, Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc., 1979
- Ullman, Montague & Limmer, Claire (editors). The Variety of Dream Experience, Second edition. New York: State University of New York Press, 1999
- Vaughan, Alan; Ullman, Montague & Krippner, Stanley. Dream Telepathy. New York: Macmillan, 1973
- Ullman, Montague. Appreciating Dreams - A Group Approach, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, 1996; republished by Cosimo Books, New York, 2006
See also
- Dream interpretation
- Siivola, Markku (2011) Understanding Dreams: The Gateway to Dreams Without Dream Interpretation
External links
- http://www.siivola.org/monte/index.html
- http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/montague_ullman.html
- Appreciating Dreams - A Group Approach
References
- ^ http://archived.parapsych.org/presidential-addresses.html Parapsychological Association - Presidential Addresses: A Complete History by Carlos Alvarado (Accessed September 2011)
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