Description |
1 online resource (x, 168 pages) : illustrations. |
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Studies in medical anthropology
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Studies in medical anthropology.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
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. |
Contents |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Nightmares.
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Nightmares. |
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Sleep disorders.
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Sleep disorders. |
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Mind and body.
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Mind and body. |
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Dreams. |
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Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical. |
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Sleep Wake Disorders. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Adler, Shelley. Sleep Paralysis : Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2011 9780813548852 |
ISBN |
9780813552378 (electronic book) |
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0813552370 (electronic book) |
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9780813548852 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813548853 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813548869 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0813548861 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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