The paradox of sleep : the story of dreaming / Michael Jouvet ; translated by Laurence Garey.

By: Jouvet, MichelMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999Description: xiii, 211 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 0262100800 (alk. paper)Uniform titles: Sommeil et le rêve. English Subject(s): Dreams | Sleep | Dreams -- psychology | Sleep -- physiologyLOC classification: QP426 | .J68313 1999Also available via the World Wide Web.
Contents:
Translator's introduction -- Preface to the french edition -- Labyrinth of sleep -- Natural history of dreaming -- Dream memories -- Oneiric behavior -- Sleep, the other side of the spirit -- Functions of dreaming -- Is paradoxical sleep the guardian of psychological individuality? -- Forty years of dream research, or the collapse of paradigms -- Glossary -- Lexicon -- References -- Index.
Summary: Michel Jouvet is perhaps the world's leading sleep and dream researcher. In The Paradox of Sleep, Jouvet takes the reader on a scientific and sociological tour of the history of sleep and dream research. Jouvet tells the story of a handful of neurobiologists, including himself, who pioneered sleep and dream research in the 1950s. He describes the technical and ideological obstacles they faced and opens his own laboratory to the reader. A key section of the book is Jouvet's discussion of why we dream. After summarizing Freud's theory of dreams, he contrasts it with current neurobiological data. Finally, he outlines his own controversial theory about why we dream: to preserve our individuality.
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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-196) and index.

Translator's introduction -- Preface to the french edition -- Labyrinth of sleep -- Natural history of dreaming -- Dream memories -- Oneiric behavior -- Sleep, the other side of the spirit -- Functions of dreaming -- Is paradoxical sleep the guardian of psychological individuality? -- Forty years of dream research, or the collapse of paradigms -- Glossary -- Lexicon -- References -- Index.

Michel Jouvet is perhaps the world's leading sleep and dream researcher. In The Paradox of Sleep, Jouvet takes the reader on a scientific and sociological tour of the history of sleep and dream research. Jouvet tells the story of a handful of neurobiologists, including himself, who pioneered sleep and dream research in the 1950s. He describes the technical and ideological obstacles they faced and opens his own laboratory to the reader. A key section of the book is Jouvet's discussion of why we dream. After summarizing Freud's theory of dreams, he contrasts it with current neurobiological data. Finally, he outlines his own controversial theory about why we dream: to preserve our individuality.

Also available via the World Wide Web.

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