Dreaming as Delirium
How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind
$70.86
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
28 October 1999
Summary
With a new foreword by the author.
In this book, J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling – and controversial – theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming. Drawing on his work both as a sleep researcher and as a psychiatrist, Hobson looks in particular at the strikingly similar chemical characteristics of the states of dreaming and psychosis. His underlying the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262581790 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262581795 |
| Author: | J. Allan Hobson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 28 October 1999 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 150mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Dreaming as Delirium |
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Critics Review
With the patience of a wise, experienced guide [Hobson] weaves together the strands of evidence gathered from a bewildering variety of sources-using very little jargon but many illustrative stories about his own life and the lives of his patients. What emerges isnothing less than the outline of a unified model of the brain and the mind. * The New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
J. Allan Hobson
J. Allan Hobson is Director of the Neurophysiology and Sleep Laboratory and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Widely considered the world’s leading expert on sleep research, he is the author of The Dreaming Brain, The Chemistry of Conscious States, Sleep, Dreaming as Delirium: How
the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind, and Consciousness.
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