Sleep and Dreaming Third Edition

by Empson, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9780333947654
• ISBN10: 0333947657
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book describes the context of sleep research, and considers popular beliefs about sleep. The book looks at the experience of sleep, including the relationship between dreaming and psychophysiological signs such as eye movement and brainwaves, as well as the physiology and natural history of sleep, and the problems of sleep disorders that humans experience.

Author Biography

Dr. Jacob Empson is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Hull. He is the author of Human Brainwaves, and many academic papers on sleep, biological rhythms and human factors.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	ix
Acknowledgments	xii
A Note on Michael Wang	xiii
Part I The Context of Sleep Research
The Obvious: Beliefs About Sleep and Dreaming	3	(17)
Sleep folklore	3	(13)
The interpretation of dreams	16	(4)
Studying Sleep in the Laboratory	20	(21)
The story of the electroencephalograph (EEG)	20	(2)
Modern EEG techniques	22	(3)
The EEG during sleep	25	(6)
Sleep norms	31	(10)
Part II The Experience of Sleep
The Dreams of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep	41	(10)
The natural history of dreaming	41	(5)
Experimental investigations	46	(5)
The Quality of the Sleeping Experience	51	(20)
The experience of sleep	51	(9)
Some memorable dream themes	60	(11)
What is a Dream?	71	(14)
A description of dreaming	71	(1)
The psychoanalytic approach	72	(2)
Some recent ideas	74	(11)
PART III THE PHYSIOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF SLEEP
The Physiology of Sleep	85	(27)
Biological rhythms and sleep	85	(13)
Hormonal changes correlated with sleep and circadian rhythm	98	(6)
Physiological mechanisms of sleep and waking	104	(3)
Neurophysiology of the sleep states	107	(5)
Sleep Disturbance	112	(16)
The effects of sleep deprivation	112	(6)
Schedules of sleep	118	(6)
Practical implications of sleep disturbance	124	(4)
The Psychology of Sleep	128	(14)
Perception and memory in sleep	128	(7)
Behaviour during sleep	135	(3)
Waking up	138	(4)
Determinants of Sleep Quality	142	(10)
Food, exercise and sleep	142	(2)
The effects of drugs on sleep	144	(8)
The Sleep of Animals	152	(11)
Mammals	153	(6)
Birds and reptiles	159	(2)
Hibernation	161	(2)
The Evolution and Functions of Sleep	163	(16)
Restorative theories	164	(5)
Is sleep a waste of time?	169	(3)
Evolution and sleep	172	(7)
PART IV SLEEP DISORDERS
Adult Sleep Disorders	179	(17)
The nature and scale of sleep disorders	179	(4)
Types of sleep disorder	183	(8)
Cures and palliatives	191	(5)
The Psychological Treatment of Insomnia (by Michael Wang)	196	(13)
A note on the nature of insomnia	196	(1)
Aetiological theories	197	(1)
Assessment	198	(1)
Intervention	199	(8)
Meta-analyses of outcome studies	207	(1)
Conclusion	208	(1)
Children's Sleep Problems	209	(8)
Infancy	209	(1)
Toddlers	210	(4)
Disorders of arousal	214	(1)
Adolescence	215	(2)
Postscript and Further Reading	217	(2)
Appendix: The Hull Sleep and Dreaming Questionnaire	219	(3)
References	222	(27)
Index	249