Sleep and Dreaming

ISBN-13: 9780333947654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 254 str.

Jacob Empson

Opis

This book describes the context of sleep research, and considers popular beliefs about sleep. The book looks at the experience of sleep, including the relationship between dreaming and psychophysiological signs such as eye movement and brainwaves, as well as the physiology and natural history of sleep, and the problems of sleep disorders that humans experience.

Spis treści

Section 1: The Context of Sleep Research.- The Obvious: Beliefs about Sleep and Dreaming.- Studying Sleep in the Laboratory.- The Physiology of Sleep.- Section 2: The Experience of Sleep.- The Dreams of REM Sleep.- The Quality of Sleeping Experience.- What is a Dream?.- Section 3: Psychophysiology of Sleep.- Sleep Disturbance.- The Psychology of Sleep.- Determinant of Sleep quality.- The Sleep of Animals.- The Evolution and Functions of Sleep.- Section 4: Problems with Sleep.- Adult Sleep Disorders.- Children's Sleep Problems.

O autorze

DR JACOB EMPSON is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Hull. He is the author of Human Brainwaves (Macmillan, 1986) and many academic papers on sleep, biological rhythms and human factors.

Blurb

Everyone sleeps and everyone dreams. Yet we are almost entirely unconscious of what is happening to us when we sleep and we forget almost all of our dreams.
This third edition of a classic introduction to the subject provides a fascinating insight into this most universal of subjects, critically analysing recent research by psychologists and neuroscientists (much of which has been published in the last ten years) and reviewing historical and cultural beliefs about dreams. Sleep and Dreaming thus acts as both a comprehensive and a rigorous text for students and a rewarding and engaging introduction to the field for the interested lay reader. This new edition contains much new material, particularly on the physiology of sleep, and also a new chapter by Professor Michael Wang on the psychological treatment of insomnia.