Rosalind D. Cartwright
Sleep researcher and psychologist
Rosalind D. Cartwright is a sleep researcher and psychologist who spent around forty years studying dreams. She wrote The Twenty-four Hour Mind.
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About Rosalind D. Cartwright
After earning her doctorate, Cartwright worked with Carl Rogers at the University of Chicago, testing his Client-Centered Psychotherapy. She then joined the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where she built a sleep laboratory to investigate what dreaming is for. Later she chaired the Department of Psychology at Rush University Medical Center, and there she opened a five-bed Sleep Disorder Service, among the earliest in the country. Her earlier titles include Night Life, A Primer on Sleep and Dreaming, and Crisis Dreaming, the last written with Lynne Lamberg. In 2004 the Sleep Research Society presented her with its Distinguished Scientist Award. She is also recognized as an authority on violence during sleepwalking and has given testimony in several high profile cases, and that work is the basis of The Twenty-four Hour Mind.