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Why Can't We Sleep

Door Darian Leader

Categorie
Psychologie
Boeknummer
#400143-VD44
Titel
Why Can't We Sleep
Auteur
Leader, Darian
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin
Jaar van uitgave
2019
ISBN10
0241984432
ISBN13
9780241984437
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Pocket book, 8vo.
Samenvatting
From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as have the incidence of sleep clinics. Sleep used to be a natural state, easy as breathing, but increasingly it is an insecure commodity. ... Isn't it? Our relationship to sleep surfaces and resurfaces throughout human history, each time telling us something new about our indivudual and collective psychology. From the industrial revolution to blue-light on our phones, from the ancient art of dream interpretation to the modern science of Freud, sleep is connected to wider social patterns, to shift... (Lees verder)ing norms and expectations. Weaving together cultural, social, economic and psychoanalytic influences, Darian Leader delves into the truth about this universal human experience.
Pagina's
207
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 5,00

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