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OverviewWhat 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. Allan HobsonPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780192803047ISBN 10: 0192803042 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 01 December 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1. What is dreaming?; 2. Why dream content analysis failed to become a science; 3. Brain activation in sleep; 4. The 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 interpretaion of dreamingReviewsLooks at the new scientific facts about dreaming and possible answers to long-held questions about the activation, function, and interpretation of dreams and it relates the science of dreaming and sleep to their interpretation in history and in psychoanalysis. From the beginning of human history, people have believed that dreams contain messages, from God's revelations to the prophets in Genesis to modern psychoanalytical interpretations. Whether you believe in divine guidance or not, there is no doubt that we all dream. J Allan Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, sets out in this book to discuss how dreaming works, what causes it, why we have trouble in remembering dreams and whether dreams can really predict the future. Much has been proved about dreams since the days of Freud - and indeed, disproved. Hobson explains how the brain and mind work in relation to dreaming, how brain damage and mental illness affect dreams, the part played by memory and learning and how the brain is activated in sleep. The amount that science has discovered about the subject in recent years is extraordinary, and Hobson's revelations about the mechanisms involved in sleep and dreaming are eye-opening. But there are still questions to be answered, especially about whether those unable to describe their experiences, such as babies and animals, dream as we do - which in turn leads on to questions about the nature of consciousness and how we should define it. This is an enlightening book that will provide much food for thought in anyone who reads it. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationJ. Allan Hobson is Director of the Neurophysiology and Sleep Laboratory and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Widely considered the world's leading expert on sleep research, he is the author of The Dreaming Brain, The Chemistry of Conscious States, Sleep, Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind, and Consciousness. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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