Understanding sleeplessness : perspectives on insomnia /

Understanding sleeplessness : perspectives on insomnia /

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Author / Creator:Neubauer, David N., 1951-
Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Description:1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Sleep disorders.
Insomnia.
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders -- psychology.
Sleep -- physiology.
Insomnia.
Sleep disorders.
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144854
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ISBN:0801881307
9780801881305
0801873266
9780801873263
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"Building on the four perspectives conceptualized by Paul McHugh and Phillip Slavney in The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Neubauer offers a much-needed explanation of the diverse ways of understanding insomnia and what should be done about it. He begins by surveying what is currently known about the mechanisms of "normal sleep" and, in this context, describing the problems of defining, assessing, and measuring insomnia. Drawing examples from patients studied at the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center, Neubauer then applies each of the four perspectives - diseases, dimensions, behaviors, life stories - to the varied kinds and degrees of sleeplessness. Finally, calling on the full range of perspectives on insomnia, he outlines an integrated approach to evaluation and treatment. His work will be of great interest and value to those who study and treat sleeplessness and to those who wish to understand this widespread and vexing problem."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Neubauer, David N., 1951- Understanding sleeplessness. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

"With this book, Neubauer provides a coherent approach to the study of insomnia. (Indeed, he has in the process provided a model for the study of other psychiatric complaints.) Here is a thorough, case-illustrated account of the links tying insomnia to the characteristics of normal sleep--links of a kind that give significance to this common complaint and reveal it as a problem in life to be studied in psychological terms familiar to all psychiatrists."--Paul R. McHugh M.D., from the foreword Excerpted from Understanding Sleeplessness: Perspectives on Insomnia by David N. Neubauer All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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