Understanding sleeplessness : perspectives on insomnia /
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Author / Creator: | Neubauer, David N., 1951- |
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Imprint: | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144854 |
ISBN: | 0801881307 9780801881305 0801873266 9780801873263 |
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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 |
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