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Nightmares The Science and Solution of Those Frightening Visions during Sleep

Patrick McNamara

ISBN: 0-313-34512-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34512-8

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200 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 7/30/2008

List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution

Reviews:

"...the author illustrates findings in clear tables and graphs and includes an extensive list of references...Well written and including a wealth of information...Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."
—CHOICE 2/1/2009

Description: We've nearly all been there at least once - awakened with a pounding heart and the memory of frightening scenes that seemed so real, but were conjured up and existed only in the sleeping mind. Nightmares affect people across countries and cultures, with some 10 percent of the world's population reporting recurrent nightmares. Parents have reported, and science has recorded, nightmares in children as young as 18 months old. Up to 40 percent of children aged 2 to 12 experience nightmares, as do some 35 percent of veterans and 50 percent of adults with chronic illness. With this book, a psychologist widely known in his field shows how nightmares evolved and were useful to ancestral populations, and why nightmares may carry beneficial functional effects even today for people who suffer from the pulse-pumping dreams. McNamara brings us up to date on the biology of nightmares and what, specifically, happens in the brain during the event. He also explains the history and development of nightmares and likely causes, including traumatic events, psychological and physical disorders, and commonly consumed medications.

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Approach to the study of nightmares
Chapter 2. Why do nightmares occur in children?
Chapter 3. Content of nightmares
Chapter 4. Nightmares in pre-modern societies
Chapter 5. Biology of nightmares
Chapter 6. Personality and psychopathological correlates of nightmares
Chapter 7. Phenomenology of the nightmare
Chapter 8. Theoretical accounts of the nightmare
Chapter 9: Nightmares and popular culture
Chapter 10: Interpretation of the possession theme in nightmares
Chapter 11: Conflict theory and the nightmare
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Additional Resources
References
Index

About the Author: Patrick McNamara is Director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory at VA New England Health Care System and Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. He is also Series Editor for the Praeger series Brain, Behavior, and Evolution. McNamara is trained in Neurocognitive Science. He is a member of the Sleep Research Society and the Association for the Study of Dreams. He is currently researching problems of the evolution and phylogeny of REM and NREM sleep states.

PDF Catalogs:
Psychology Catalog 2008.pdf	Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf


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