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Sleeping and dreaming / [edited by Nadine Käthe Monem].

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Black Dog Pub. : Wellcome Collection ; [Dresden, Germany] : Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 176 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781906155056
  • 1906155054
Subject(s):
Contents:
Without sleeping, there is no waking : an introduction to sleep in modern society / Jürgen Zulley -- Sleep as a temporal bridge : on the phenomenology of the sleeping consciousness / Manfred Geier -- The brain never sleeps : how sleep improves our memory / Ullrich Wagner -- Collapse in the night : processing traumatic dream experiences / Tamara Fischmann -- Dreams in contemporary psychoanalysis / Daniel Pick -- Dream worlds of the modern era : philosophical dream criticism and the hermeneutics of suspicion / Ralf Konersmann -- The interpretation of dreams and the neurosciences / Mark Solms -- No sleep, only dreams / A.L. Kennedy.
Summary: A look at why humans need to sleep and dream and why happens to our brain and body during sleep, encompassing work by scientists, writers, filmmakers, artists, philosophers and historians.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Red 154.6 MON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 04847

Includes bibliographical references.

Without sleeping, there is no waking : an introduction to sleep in modern society / Jürgen Zulley -- Sleep as a temporal bridge : on the phenomenology of the sleeping consciousness / Manfred Geier -- The brain never sleeps : how sleep improves our memory / Ullrich Wagner -- Collapse in the night : processing traumatic dream experiences / Tamara Fischmann -- Dreams in contemporary psychoanalysis / Daniel Pick -- Dream worlds of the modern era : philosophical dream criticism and the hermeneutics of suspicion / Ralf Konersmann -- The interpretation of dreams and the neurosciences / Mark Solms -- No sleep, only dreams / A.L. Kennedy.

A look at why humans need to sleep and dream and why happens to our brain and body during sleep, encompassing work by scientists, writers, filmmakers, artists, philosophers and historians.