By Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy ? The Journal News
ARDSLEY - Dr. Montague Ullman, a psychoanalyst who founded a center devoted to the experimental study of dreams and telepathy called the Dream Laboratory at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, died Saturday after a stroke. He was 91.
A 58-year Ardsley resident, Ullman became the founder and director of the first fully operational community mental health center at Maimonides in 1967.
"Dr. Ullman was a pioneer in using dreams in therapy," said Dr. Joseph Battaglia, clinical director of the Bronx Psychiatric Center, which is affiliated with Albert Einstein College. "His early work in establishing a community mental health center in New York City is truly significant."
He resigned from his positions at Maimonides in 1974 to devote himself to dream research and the development of group approaches to dreams.
His work in Sweden resulted in the formation of a national society, The Dream Group Forum, in 1990, which was followed in 2003 with the Dream Group Forum in Finland. Both groups are committed to the task of extending dream work into the community, an undertaking based on the experiential group method that Ullman initiated.
A father of three, Ullman often used his children as his subjects, said his daughter, Susan Ullman, 65, of Ardsley.
"Sometimes he'd pay us a nickel to tell him our dreams, and my brother would often make up dreams just to get paid,"she said.
The author of several books, including "Dream Telepathy," Ullman was clinical professor emeritus in the department of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was past president of the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts, a charter fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, past president of the American Society for Psychical Research, past president of the Parapsychological Association and a life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
He received a bachelor's degree from the College of the City of New York in 1935 and graduated from New York University's College of Medicine in 1938.
Following completion of his training in neurology and psychiatry, he entered private practice in 1946 after returning from military service.
"My father helped and touched people all around the world," said his daughter. "I will miss the friendship we shared."
Ullman's wife, the former Janet Simon, died in 2001. Besides his children, he is survived by four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. No public memorial service is planned.
"We will have a celebration of his life in September," his daughter said.
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