Dreaming : an introduction to the science of sleep
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : J Allan Hobson
- ناشر : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2002
- شابک / ISBN : 9780192803047
Description
1. What is dreaming? -- 2. Why did the analysis of dream content fail 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
Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep and sleep laboratory science, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness
