The Psychiatric Dimensions of Sleep Medicine, an Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics

A handbook on the psychiatric aspects of sleep medicine. It covers such topics as: a historical perspective of sleep and psychiatry; the psychology of sleep and dreaming; pharmacological management of insomnia; excessive daytime somnolence and fatigue in the psychiatric patient; parasomnias; and, sleep in mood disorders and anxiety disorders.

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This issue is the definitive handbook on the most important psychiatric aspects of sleep medicine. Topics include: a historical perspective of sleep and psychiatry; the psychology of sleep and dreaming; the prevalence, impact, pathogenesis, differential diagnosis, and evaluation of insomnia; pharmacological management of, as well as nonpharmacological strategies for, insomnia; excessive daytime somnolence and fatigue in the psychiatric patient; parasomnias; sleep in mood disorders, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders; behavioral sleep disorders in children and adolescents; sleep disorders specifically in seniors and in women; and, seasonal affective disorder and phototherapy.