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Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection: Studies in Medical Anthropology

Autor Professor Shelley R Adler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2011
Sleep Paralysis explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. In its original meaning a night-mare was the nocturnal visit of an evil being that threatened to press the life out of its victim. Today, it is known as sleep paralysis-a state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often frightening hallucinations. Culture, history, and biology intersect to produce this terrifying sleep phenomenon. Although a relatively common experience across cultures, it is rarely recognized or understood in the contemporary United States.

Shelley R. Adler's fifteen years of field and archival research focus on the ways in which night-mare attacks have been experienced and interpreted throughout history and across cultures and how, in a unique example of the effect of nocebo (placebo's evil twin), the combination of meaning and biology may result in sudden nocturnal death.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813548869
ISBN-10: 0813548861
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 7 illustrations.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Studies in Medical Anthropology


Notă biografică

SHELLEY R. ADLER is a professor in the department of family and community medicine and director of education at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Cuprins

Consistencies : cross-cultural patterns
Continuities : a transhistorical bestiary
The night-mare on the analyst's couch
The night-mare in the sleep lab
The night-mare, traditional Hmong culture, and sudden death
The night-mare and the nocebo : beliefs that harm

Recenzii

"A fascinating and engaging book. Drawing upon multiple sources, including art, literature, work by other researches and her own fieldwork, Adler adroitly weaves a cogent narrative which provides insight into this pervasive yet under recognized affliction."

"Sleep Paralysis is a mind-bending exploration of how what you believe interacts with how your body works."

Descriere

Sleep Paralysis explores a form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. In its original meaning a night-mare was the nocturnal visit of an evil being that threatened to press the life out of its victim. Today, it is known as sleep paralysis-a state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often frightening hallucinations. Culture, history, and biology intersect to produce this terrifying sleep phenomenon that is rarely recognized or understood in the contemporary United States.