Dreaming : an introduction to the science of sleep
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Dreaming : an introduction to the science of sleep
Oxford University Press, 2003, c2002
- : pbk
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"First published in paperback 2003"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. What is dreaming?
- 2. Why dream content analysis failed to become a science
- 3. How is the brain activated in sleep?
- 4. Cells and molecules of the dreaming brain
- 5. Why dream? The functions of brain activation in sleep
- 6. Disorders of dreaming
- 7. Dreaming as delirium: sleep and mental illness
- 8. The new neuropsychology of dreaming
- 9. Dreaming, learning, and memory
- 10. Dream consciousness
- 11. The interpretation of dreams
- Conclusion
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