Dream life : an experimental memoir /

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Author / Creator:Hobson, J. Allan, 1933-
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Description:ix, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8401024
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ISBN:9780262015325 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262015323 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • I. Biologically Speaking: An Experimental Autobiography
  • 1. Brain Birth: A Non-Immaculate Conception
  • 2. Brain Growth: The Illusion and the Reality of Being
  • 3. Brain State: A Self-Organizing Process
  • II. My Experimental Nature
  • 4. The Genesis of My Experimentalism
  • 5. Marginal Modes of Being
  • 6. Experimental Social Structures
  • III. The Nature of My Experiments
  • 7. Psychoanalysis as Thesis
  • 8. Brain Science as Antithesis
  • 9. Cognitive Neuroscience as Synthesis
  • IV. Experiments of Nature
  • 10. Brain Shock
  • 11. Brain Death
  • 12. Heart Failure
  • 13. Back Ache
  • 14. Sleep Strangulation
  • V. Implications of My Work
  • 15. Philosophical Implications
  • 16. Scientific Implications
  • 17. Dream Science and the Humanities
  • 18. Functional Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index