Insomniac / Gayle Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Gayle, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insomnia.

Insomnia--Miscellanea.

Sleep disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

I can't work, I can't think, I can't connect with anyone anymore. . . . I mope through a day's work and haven't had a promotion in years. . . . It's like I'm being sucked dry, eaten away, swallowed up, coming unglued. . . . These are voices of a few of the tens of millions who suffer from chronic insomnia. In this revelatory book, Gayle Greene offers a uniquely comprehensive account of this devastating and little-understood condition. She has traveled the world in a quest for answers, interviewing neurologists, sleep researchers, doctors, psychotherapists, and insomniacs of all sorts. What comes of her extraordinary journey is an up-to-date account of what is known about insomnia, providing the information every insomniac needs to know to make intelligent choices among medications and therapies. Insomniac is at once a field guide through the hidden terrain inhabited by insomniacs and a book of consolations for anyone who has struggled with this affliction that has long been trivialized and neglected.

Contents:

Insomnia

Sleepstarved

Blame the victim

Sleepless in Seattle : the conferences

The brain of an insomniac

Sleep, stress, and stages of life

Rock, hard place : the drugs

Change your attitude, change your ways : behavioral modification

Asleep at the switch : the clinics

Alternatives

Bedding down with the beast

Making change.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-471) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520932371

0520932374

OCLC:

609849938