TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neubauer,David N.
TI  - Understanding sleeplessness: perspectives on insomnia 
SN  - 0801881307
AV  - RC547 .N485 2003eb
U1  - 616.8/498 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Sleep disorders
KW  - Insomnia
KW  - Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
KW  - psychology
KW  - Sleep
KW  - physiology
KW  - Sleep Wake Disorders
KW  - Troubles du sommeil
KW  - Insomnie
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Sleep & Sleep Disorders
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index; The problems with insomnia -- Normal sleep: what we know and how we know it -- Sleep as a motivated behavior -- The dimensions of sleep -- Life: the context of sleep -- Insomnia: symptom or disease -- Evaluation and treatment: the need for integration
N2  - "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
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