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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| A Note on Michael Wang | |
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| The Context of Sleep Research | |
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| The Obvious: Beliefs About Sleep and Dreaming | |
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| Sleep folklore | |
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| The interpretation of dreams | |
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| Studying Sleep in the Laboratory | |
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| The story of the electroencephalograph (EEG) | |
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| Modern EEG techniques | |
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| The EEG during sleep | |
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| Sleep norms | |
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| The Experience of Sleep | |
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| The Dreams of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep | |
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| The natural history of dreaming | |
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| Experimental investigations | |
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| The Quality of the Sleeping Experience | |
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| The experience of sleep | |
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| Some memorable dream themes | |
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| What is a Dream? | |
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| A description of dreaming | |
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| The psychoanalytic approach | |
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| Some recent ideas | |
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| The Physiology and Natural History of Sleep | |
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| The Physiology of Sleep | |
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| Biological rhythms and sleep | |
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| Hormonal changes correlated with sleep and circadian rhythm | |
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| Physiological mechanisms of sleep and waking | |
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| Neurophysiology of the sleep states | |
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| Sleep Disturbance | |
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| The effects of sleep deprivation | |
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| Schedules of sleep | |
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| Practical implications of sleep disturbance | |
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| The Psychology of Sleep | |
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| Perception and memory in sleep | |
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| Behaviour during sleep | |
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| Waking up | |
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| Determinants of Sleep Quality | |
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| Food, exercise and sleep | |
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| The effects of drugs on sleep | |
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| The Sleep of Animals | |
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| Mammals | |
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| Birds and reptiles | |
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| Hibernation | |
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| The Evolution and Functions of Sleep | |
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| Restorative theories | |
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| Is sleep a waste of time? | |
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| Evolution and sleep | |
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| Sleep Disorders | |
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| Adult Sleep Disorders | |
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| The nature and scale of sleep disorders | |
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| Types of sleep disorder | |
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| Cures and palliatives | |
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| The Psychological Treatment of Insomnia (by Michael Wang) | |
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| A note on the nature of insomnia | |
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| Aetiological theories | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Intervention | |
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| Meta-analyses of outcome studies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Children's Sleep Problems | |
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| Infancy | |
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| Toddlers | |
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| Disorders of arousal | |
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| Adolescence | |
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| Postscript and Further Reading | |
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| The Hull Sleep and Dreaming Questionnaire | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |