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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrick McNamara |
| ISBN: | 9780313345128 0313345120 |
| OCLC Number: | 213375778 |
| Description: | xviii, 174 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 amygdala ; Selected neuropharmacological agents can induce nightmares ; Neuroanatomy and physiology of a nightmare -- Personality and psychopathological correlates of nightmares ; Nightmares are not reliably associated with loss of function ; Disorders involving nightmares ; Nightmares and psychopathology -- 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 -- 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 -- Nightmares and popular culture ; Movies, nightmares, and spirit possession ; Nightmare-related spirit possession is a universal phenomenon ; Alien abduction ; Books, nightmares, and spirit possession -- 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 -- 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. |
| Series Title: | Brain, behavior, and evolution (Westport, Conn.) |
| Responsibility: | Patrick McNamara. |
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