Bøger af J. Allan Hobson

A terrifying picture of the collapse of American psychiatry and the toll it has taken on the mentally ill."-BusinessWeek

The new approach is solidly grounded in sleep and dream science and restores hypnosis to its rightful place in the therapeutic armamentarium. A central precept of Ego Damage and Repair is that the self and its subjective experience are natural accompaniments of spontaneous and prenatal brain activation that persists throughout life.

In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling--andcontroversial--theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he callsit, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between thechemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming.

A Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and neuroscientist shows how dream science draws on psychology and neurobiology to provide new insight into the nature of the human mind.