Dreaming An Introduction to the Science of Sleep

Name: Dreaming An Introduction to the Science of Sleep
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ISBN: 9780192804822

ISBN-10: 0192804820

ISBN-13: 9780192804822

Edition: 2003

Authors: J. Allan Hobson

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What is dreaming? What causes dreaming? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear and complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain.This picture is important not only for understanding dreaming itself, but also for a science of consciousness and of mental health and illness. This book focuses on dreaming to introduce the reader to sleep laboratory science and to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep. It shows how the new science of dreaming affects theories in psychoanalysis, and how it helps to understand the basis of mental illness.

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/26/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

J. Allan Hobson is Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of The Dreaming Brain: How the Brain Creates Both the Sense and the Nonsense of Dreams, Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind(MIT Press, 1999), The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness(MIT Press, 1999, 2001), and other books.




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The new neuropsychology of dreaming



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