The Nation - News from Jan. 8, 1987
Lifelong nightmare sufferers are creative but vulnerable people who may be schizophrenic, paranoid, or suffer from other personality disorders, a researcher said. “Overall, the term that seems to sum up their characteristics best is ‘thin boundaries,’ ” said Dr. Ernest Hartmann, chief author of a study in this month’s Archives of General Psychiatry, published by the American Medical Assn. Hartmann led five researchers from the Sleep Research Laboratory at Boston’s Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and nearby Cambridge Hospital in testing a group of 36 people, ages 20 to 35.
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