Sleep Paralysis : Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection /
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...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.