Sleep Talking : Psychology and Psychophysiology

ISBN-13: 9780898590319 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 640 str.

A. M. Arkin;A. M. Arkin

Opis

First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Orienting Remarks on Electrographic Features of the Sleep Cycle; Notes on the Usage of Terms in this Book; 2. Definitions of Sleep-Utterance 3. Clinical Classifications of Sleep-Utterance Syndromes 4. Demography of Sleep-Talking 5. Psychopathological Significance of Somniloquy 6. Somniloquy, Other Episodic Sleep Disorders and the Question of Hereditary Predisposition 7. Laboratory Studies on Normative and Electrographic Features of Sleep-Talking 8. Structural and Physical Aspects of Sleep-Utterance 9. Psychological Content of Somniloquy 10. Sleep-Utterance and Associated Mentation Recalled 11. Experimental Manipulation of Sleep-Talking 12. Dialogue Between Sleep-Talkers and Wakeful Observers 13. Comparison of Mentation Associated with NREM Sleep-Speech and NREM Silent Sleep 14. Special Abilities Manifested During Sleep-Talking Episodes 15. The Psychoanalytic Literature and Somniloquy 16. Miscellaneous Psychological Theories of Sleep-Utterance 17. A Contemporary Theoretical Organizing Perspective for Sleep-Utterance 18. Sleep-Talking In Relation to Cognitive Psychology: Memory, Psycholinguistics, and Aphasia 19. Pathological and Experimental States Related to Somniloquy 20. Clinical Uses of Sleep-Talking 21. Addendum: New Studies of Sleep-Talking (Heynlck, 1980a, b)

O autorze

ARTHUR M. ARKIN, M. D. Department of Psychology City College of the City University of New York; Department of Psychiatry Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York