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Nightmares: the science and solution of those frightening visions during sleep
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Praeger
Publication Date
2008.
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English
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9780313345128
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Table of Contents
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Tables and figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Approach to the study of nightmares
Shortcomings of the standard "take" on nightmares
Nightmares can be functional
Definition and diagnostic criteria for recurrent nightmares
Syndrome of recurring nightmares
The sharing of nightmares with others
2. Why do nightmares occur in children?
Sleep in childhood
Dreaming in childhood
Evolution of childhood
Cognitive and psychological growth of the child
Development of the sense of self in children
Impact of developmental milestones on nightmare propensity in children
3. Content of nightmares
Comparing nightmare content to ordinary dreams
Nightmare content scoring
Word count analyses of Barb Sanders' nightmares
Nightmares as compelling : the case of "precognitive nightmares"
People who experience extraordinary dreams must be extraordinary people
4. Nightmares in premodern societies
Nightmares as evidence of extraordinary powers in ancestral populations
Dreams in premodern societies
Cultural context of dreaming in premodern societies
Nightmare sharing in premodern groups
5. Biology of nightmares
Normal human sleep architecture
Sleep rebound effects and REM-NREM imbalances in production of nightmares
Special link between nightmares and REM sleep
Summary of REM properties and nightmares
Key role of the amygdale
Selected neuropharmacological agents can induce nightmares
Neuroanatomy and physiology of a nightmare
5. Personality and psychopathological correlates of nightmares
Nightmares are not reliably associated with loss of function
Disorders involving nightmares
Nightmares and psychopathology
7. Phenomenology of the nightmare
Basic visual features
Emotional atmosphere
Automaticity
Cognitive content elicits the emotional content
Creativity
"Compellingness"
Narrative form
Self-identity
Lack of metaphor
Self-reflectiveness
Mind reading
Summary of formal features of nightmares
8. Theoretical accounts of the nightmare
Facts that must serve as the basis for nightmare theory
Proposed functional theory of nightmares
Costly signaling theory (CST)
Freud's view of nightmares
Fisher's view of nightmares
Kramer's view of nightmares
Hartmann's view of nightmares
Nielsen and Levin's view of nightmares
Theory and treatment strategies
9. Nightmares and popular culture
Movies, nightmares, and spirit possession
Nightmare-related spirit possession is a universal phenomenon
Alien abduction
Books, nightmares, and spirit possession
10. Interpretation of the possession theme in nightmares
Selection of nightmares with spirit possession themes
Caveats in the interpretation of nightmares and standard explanations of the possession theme
Recurring patterns in the spirit-possession theme
11. Conflict theory and the nightmare
Mind is not a unity
Paradox of mind reading in dreams : the role of the "stranger"
Male strangers and aggression in dreams
REM-NREM dissociations in the dreaming mind
Dreaming and consciousness
Dream agents/characters can represent genomes within the individual
Effects of imprinted genes on physiologic systems implicated in growth
Effects of imprinted genes on functional brain systems implicated in sleep processes
Genomic imprinting and sleep-state biology
Genetic conflict and dream phenomenology
Concluding remarks
Appendix. Additional resources
References
Index.
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