Psychology has had some success in describing personality differences, but the picture often appears incomplete, and it has been hard to find links between personality and the organization of the brain. Using vivid case-histories and an in-depth questionnaire, this book proposes a broad and eminently new way of looking at individual differences. "Boundaries", according to the author, pervade our lives - separating inner from outer experience, past from present, and sleeping from waking. The concept applies to both normal and abnormal behaviour, to relationships, attitudes, and states of mind and body. This book explains how boundary types originate, how and why they may change, and how an understanding of this concept can help us better understand and control our emotional lives. Ernest Hartmann is the author of "The Nightmare" and "The Functions of Sleep".
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.
