Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 413 g
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 413 g
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7326-3
Verlag: Hopkins Fulfillment Service
Building on the "four perspectives" conceptualized by McHugh and Slavney in The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Neubauer offers a much-needed explanation of the diverse ways of understanding what insomnia is and what should be done about it. He begins by surveying what is currently known about the mechanisms of "normal sleep" and, in this light, 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.
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Foreword, by Paul R. McHugh, M.D.
Acknowledgments
1. The Problems with Insomnia
2. Normal Sleep: What We Know and How We Know It
3. Sleep as a Motivated Behavior
4. The Dimensions of Sleep
5. Life as the Context of Sleep
6. Insomnia as a Symptom or a Disease
7. Evaluation and Treatment: The Need for Integration
Appendix: Sleep Medicine Resources
References
Index
"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