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The Journey

Of Rosalind Cartwright

By: Jasmine Newsome

Is She Still Apart Of PSYCHOLOGY?

In The Twenty-Four Hour Mind psychologist Rosalind Cartwright gives an engaging account of the history of sleep research. She skillfully weaves in her 50 years’ worth of work in the field, delving into her own theories about the purpose of dreams and highlighting the importance of sleep to maintain our physical and mental well-being.

WHO Was Rosalind CartWright?

Rosalind Cartwright Ph.D recieved B.A and M.A. in Psychology at the University of Toronto. She studied at Cornell University where she recieved her Ph. D. in 1949. In 1963 she moved to became Director of Psychology at the University of Illinois College Of Medicine where she opened a sleep laboratory to study the function of dreaming and REM sleep funded by NSF, NIH and NIMH. In 1977 she was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Rush University Medical Center, a position she held for 30 years. She was Boarded in Sleep Medicine in 1980.

What Were Her Theories?

One of Cartwright's studies concluded that a good night's sleep can cause the dreamer to wake up on the right side of the bed. She observed the dreams of 31 subjects who had major depression upon their first screening. Twenty-two of the 31 were found to be in remission upon followup with no need for treatment.Cartwright proposes that dreams diffuse the impact of otherwise disturbing emotions by matching them with similar experiences already stored in our long-term memory. Her own studies have shown that even when people go to bed angry or sad, their dreams can turn progressively more positive as the night wears on, allowing the person to wake up in a better mood. She has also built her theory on studies in which volunteers played virtual games and later associated the emotional situations in the games to experiences in their own lives. While they slept, volunteers reported pairing the virtual images with memories of similar emotional experiences. Cartwright concluded that this emotional matching process mitigates some of the negative feelings associated with the events.

She contributed in writing two books, Twenty- Four Hour Mind and Crisis Dreaming.

Rosalind Cartwright, Ph.D. and Lynne Lamberg present new evidence that dreams are coherent symbolic reflections of the dreamer's mental state. They show that you can learn about yourself and your problems by studying your dreams.

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