Key Features:
What is dreaming and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? This books presents the facts that modern science has discovered.
- The hardback edition has sold over 10, 000 copies
- Looks at the new scientific facts about dreaming and possible answers to long-held questions about the activation, function, and interpretation of dreams
- Investigates the relationships between dreaming, learning, memory, and consciousness
- Explores how discoveries in the science of dreams have advanced our understanding of mental illness
- Allan Hobson is the world's leading expert on sleep research
- Subject of huge interest and fascination to a large readership
- Relates the science of dreaming and sleep to their interpretation in history and in psychoanalysis
Description:
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.
PREVIOUS EDITION: 0-19-280304-2
Competition:
Understanding Dreams by Keith Hearne, David Melbourne. Published 2001 £9.99. Publisher: New Holland.
Sleep and Dreams by Andrew T. McPhee. £23.34. Publisher: Franklin Watts.
Counting Sheep - the science and pleasures of sleep and dreams by Paul Martin. Published 2002 £14.99. Publisher: HarperCollins.
What is dreaming and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? This books presents the facts that modern science has discovered.
- The hardback edition has sold over 10, 000 copies
- Looks at the new scientific facts about dreaming and possible answers to long-held questions about the activation, function, and interpretation of dreams
- Investigates the relationships between dreaming, learning, memory, and consciousness
- Explores how discoveries in the science of dreams have advanced our understanding of mental illness
- Allan Hobson is the world's leading expert on sleep research
- Subject of huge interest and fascination to a large readership
- Relates the science of dreaming and sleep to their interpretation in history and in psychoanalysis
Description:
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.
PREVIOUS EDITION: 0-19-280304-2
Competition:
Understanding Dreams by Keith Hearne, David Melbourne. Published 2001 £9.99. Publisher: New Holland.
Sleep and Dreams by Andrew T. McPhee. £23.34. Publisher: Franklin Watts.
Counting Sheep - the science and pleasures of sleep and dreams by Paul Martin. Published 2002 £14.99. Publisher: HarperCollins.