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The twenty-four hour mind : the role of sleep and dreaming in our emotional lives / Rosalind D. Cartwright.

By: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xvi, 208 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780195386837 (hc : acidfree paper)
  • 0195386833
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.2/090072 22
LOC classification:
  • RA786 .C37 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
In the beginning : the early days of sleep research -- Collecting dreams : watching the sleeping mind -- Short sleep and its consequences : insomnia -- Sleep and dreams in depression -- Sleepwalking into danger : murders without motives -- More NREM parasomnias : those who injure themselves, seek food or sex, explore, and protect -- Sleepwalking and state of mind in the courtroom -- Warnings from the land of nod : nightmares and REM behavior disorder -- Dreaming and the unconscious -- The role of dreams in the twenty-four hour mind : regulating emotion and updating the self.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.

In the beginning : the early days of sleep research -- Collecting dreams : watching the sleeping mind -- Short sleep and its consequences : insomnia -- Sleep and dreams in depression -- Sleepwalking into danger : murders without motives -- More NREM parasomnias : those who injure themselves, seek food or sex, explore, and protect -- Sleepwalking and state of mind in the courtroom -- Warnings from the land of nod : nightmares and REM behavior disorder -- Dreaming and the unconscious -- The role of dreams in the twenty-four hour mind : regulating emotion and updating the self.

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