{"product_id":"dreaming-as-delirium-isbn-9780262581790","title":"Dreaming as Delirium","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a new foreword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming. Drawing on his work both as a sleep researcher and as a psychiatrist, Hobson looks in particular at the strikingly similar chemical characteristics of the states of dreaming and psychosis. His underlying theme is that the form of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, and memories derive from specific nerve cells and electrochemical impulses described by neuroscientists. Among the questions Hobson explores are: What are dreams? Do they have any hidden meaning, or are they simply emotionally salient images whose peculiar narrative structure refects the unique neurophysiology of sleep? And what is the relationship between the delirium of our dream life and psychosis?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Little, Brown under the title \u003ci\u003eThe Chemistry of Conscious States\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003eWith the patience of a wise, experienced guide [Hobson] weaves together the strands of evidence gathered from a bewildering variety of sources-using very little jargon but many illustrative stories about his own life and the lives of his patients. What emerges isnothing less than the outline of a unified model of the brain and the mind.—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e—J. Allan Hobson is Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e The Dreaming Brain: How the Brain Creates Both the Sense\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand The Nonsense of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press,1999),\u003ci\u003e The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 1999, 2001), and other books.","brand":"Bradford Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300849242341,"sku":"NP9780262581790","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262581790.jpg?v=1767725693","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dreaming-as-delirium-isbn-9780262581790","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}