Speaking of Sleeping Problems (Learning to Sleep Well Again)

Speaking of Sleeping Problems (Learning to Sleep Well Again)

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAC058
Publisher: Sterling Paperbacks
Language: English
Edition: 2011
ISBN: 9788120717732
Pages: 127
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5 inch X 5.5 inch
Weight 160 gm

Book Description

From the Jacket

This book is a self-help guide for people with sleeping problems. It tells what they themselves can do to eliminate their problems in sleeping. Difficulty in sleeping is not something that must be passively accepted. Just as it is possible to learn to remain awake under special circumstances, it is possible to learn to sleep well again. Dr. Langen, Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychotherapy at the University Clinic of Mainz, bases his self-help program on these new medical findings.

Step 1: The reader becomes familiar with how the sleep-wakefulness mechanism functions, learns the workings of man’s biological clock, and the significance of dreams to sleep.

Step 2: Professor Langen explains how people with sleeping problems can liberate themselves from sleep medications in order to regain the ability to sleep.

Step 3: Various kinds of sleep disturbances, their causes, and treatments are clearly described in detail. By making a record of sleep habits and analyzing it, the patient finds out exactly which type of sleeper he is and can then initiate a planned program of treatment.

Back of the Book

We need to rest in order to restore energy to our bodies, particularly to the brain and nervous system. Sleep helps us do this. Some of the sleep problems people face are dreaming, nightmares, sleepwalking, snoring and insomnia. People deprived of sleep lose energy, become quick-tempered, lose concentration and make mistakes.

Being aware of these problems is the first step towards, therapy. Just as it is possible to learn to remain awake, it is possible to sleep well again.

This book helps you to recognize and solve your sleep problems.

Contents

1 Sleeping Problems Can Be Avoided 11
Ability to Sleep Can Be Learned 11
Sleep As a Drive 13
Wrong Sleep Expectation 14
Accepting Being a Short Sleeper 15
2 What Is Sleep? 17
A Normal Sleep Pattern 17
Rapid eye movement (REM) 17
Deviations from the Sleep Norm 21
The Sleep-Wakefulness Mechanism 23
Man’s Biological Clock 24
The Biochemistry of Sleep 26
3. Subjective and Objective Quality of Sleep 29
Amount of Sleep and Need of Sleep 29
Sleep among Infants and the Elderly 33
4. dreaming as a Part of Sleep 39
Dream Phases-Their Biological Necessity 39
Dream Content 44
Sensations Occurring at Sleep Onset 47
Electrosleep 48
5. Sleep Disturbances – Causes and Consequences 51
Exogenous Disturbances in Falling Asleep 51
Noise as a source of disturbance 52
Condition of the bed 56
Temperature of the bedroom 56
Sleep habits 57
Psychoreactive Obstacles to Falling Asleep 59
Difficulty in Falling Back to Sleep 51
Waking up Prematurely 63
Functional Sleep Disturbance 66
Clinical findings and subjective assessment 66
Waiting for sleep 68
Reaching for the sleeping pills 68
Nocturnal anxiety 71
Social and biological rhythm 71
Inducing fatigue 73
Planning the evening 73
Waking up-getting up 77
6. Factors That Disturb Sleep 79
Snoring 79
Tooth Grinding 79
Sleep-Talking 80
Sleep-Walking 80
Night Terrors 82
Rhythmic Tossing Back and Forth of the Head 83
Nocturnal Bedwetting 83
7. Therapeutic Methods 87
Psychotherapy for sleep Disturbances 87
Autogenic Training: Learning to be Quiet 88
Graduated Active Hypnosis: Learning to Shut Things Out 92
8 Burdens and Apparent Aids to Sleep 97
Sleep and Stress 97
Alcohol and Sleep 99
Sleep Medication and Sleep 102
Sedatives or Hypnotics 103
9. Your Own Sleep Analysis 113
10. Sleep Analysis Questionnaire 117
Index 123

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