In this book, J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling -- and controversial -- theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming. Drawing on his work both as a sleep researcher and as a psychiatrist, Hobson looks in particular at the strikingly similar chemical characteristics of the states of dreaming and psychosis. His underlying theme is that the form of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, and memories derive from specific nerve...
With a new foreword by the author.
In this book, J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling -- and controversial -- theory of consciousness. Our b...
As a psychiatric trainee at Harvard in the early 1960s, Dr. Allan Hobson was taught commitment to a psychoanalytic theory that was already suspect and is now almost entirely obsolete. Via a series of clinical case reports, the author first apologizes for the arrogant ignorance that he adopted from his teachers and then replaces Freudian doctrine with a scientific alternative called Psychodynamic Neurology. The new approach is solidly grounded in sleep and dream science and restores hypnosis to its rightful place in the therapeutic armamentarium. A central precept of Ego Damage and...
As a psychiatric trainee at Harvard in the early 1960s, Dr. Allan Hobson was taught commitment to a psychoanalytic theory that was already suspect and...
