Sleep Paralysis
Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection
2011
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-4886-9 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-4886-9 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
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
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.6.2011 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Medical Anthropology |
Zusatzinfo | 7 illustrations. |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 255 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-4886-1 / 0813548861 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-4886-9 / 9780813548869 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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