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...some answers, Psychiatrist Er nest L. Hartmann, 36, advertised in Bos ton and New York papers for long and short sleepers to engage in an eight-night "sleep-in" at Boston State Hos pital's Sleep and Dream Laboratory, which Hartmann directs. His findings in dicate that such people differ from or dinary sleepers - and each other - not so much physically as psychologically...
Long sleepers, in contrast, checked out as nonconform ist, shy, somewhat with drawn, and melancholy. Reports Hartmann: "Almost all showed evidence of some in hibition in the spheres of sexual or aggressive functioning." Some betrayed "mild anxiety neuroses" and depression. Moreover, they slept fitfully, waked often and typically got up with a mild case of the morning blahs...
...first Hartmann was tempted to clas sify the restless long sleepers as "well-compensated insomniacs" who had to spend more hours in bed simply to get enough sleep. He changed his mind with the discovery that long, short and average sleepers all spend about the same amount of time in what research ers call "slow-wave sleep," the deep and relatively dreamless state, totaling some 75 minutes a night, when people are presumed to get their real recu peration from the activities of the pre vious day. Additionally, Hartmann concluded that long sleepers spent nearly twice as much...
Died. Dr. Heinz Hartmann, 75, Vienna-born pioneer of psychoanalysis; of a heart attack; in Stony Point, N.Y. Hartmann's fame rests on his genius as a teacher and synthesizer rather than a practicing analyst. In numerous works backed by clinical observation (Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation), he refined and expanded many of Sigmund Freud's theories as well as placing them in a historical, biological and philosophical context...
Decline in Skill. Hartmann offers no final conclusions from his experiment. Significant similarities in the art produced under the drug and that done by schizophrenics may lend support to medical scientists who think that some biochemical imbalance is responsible for schizophrenia. He still thinks that LSD may be useful in tracing archetypal patterns that emerge when inhibitions are lowered. Yet he now believes that, for the creative artist, drugs are likely to produce more negative than positive results. The works produced under the experiment bear...