Rosalind Cartwright, PhD

Rosalind Cartwright attended Cornell University from which she received a Ph.D. degree in 1949. She has taught at Mount Holyoke College then at the University of Chicago where she worked with Carl Rogers. Their studies were published as prize winning book "Psychotherapy and Personality Change" At the University of Illinois College Of Medicine she opened a sleep laboratory and began a series of studies funded by NSF, NIH and NIMH which have continued for the past forty years. 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. There she opened the first Sleep Disorder Service and Research Center in the state of Illinois. She holds an endowed University chair and continues to conduct research studies on sleep and dreaming.

In 2004 she was the recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award given by the Sleep Research Society. She is frequently interviewed on TV on her work with sleepwalking violence, dreams that help the depressed recover, snoring that disturbs the sleep of the partner. She has appeared on Oprah, Phil Donahue, Court TV, Larry King Live, and locally on WBEZ. Radio.

She has authored over 200 journal articles and three books on sleep and dreaming:

Night Life: Explorations in Dreaming
A Primer on Sleep and Dreaming
Crisis Dreaming (with Lynn Lamberg)
and is currently writing a book on sleepwalking to be called "Dangerous Sleep"

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