"I count myself among those who have broken more completely with the classical tradition. I view dreaming consciousness as a natural healing mechanism confronting us with information about the personal and social realities that shape our lives.”

Montague Ullman                                                             September 9, 1916 - June 7, 2008                          

Ullman, who was born and raised in New York, had a combined career as a neurologist and a psychoanalytic psychiatrist. In the late 1930s, during Ullman’s early years as a psychiatrist, Freud’s theories on dreaming were gospel. Ullman, disenchanted with Freud and increasingly more interested in dreams and parapsychology (psychic phenomena), moved away completely from psychoanalysis. From then on, he devoted his life to training people on his dream group format and in facilitating weekly dream appreciation groups.