Dream Life: An Experimental Memoir (The MIT Press)
Dream Life: An Experimental Memoir (The MIT Press)
Overview
Aiming squarely at Freud, Hobson and a succession of collaborators documented people's sleep cycles, monitored their brain waves, and tracked chemical changes in the brain. In a series of books driven by five decades of research, Hobson argued that what's really happening when we dream is that our forebrains -- the center of thinking and memory -- are offline, while our visual, auditory, and emotional centers are not only online, but lit up. Bizarre and powerful dreams aren't caused by repressed desire, he argued, but by biology. Dreams may be fun to think about, but they're really just a side effect of sleep.(Boston Globe)Many scientists write lay expositions of their research. Others do memoirs. Hobson, one of the world's most eminent sleep researchers, provides a unique amalgam. He recounts his life history, employing diverse episodes to convey insights into brain function. Hobson is frank to a fault, baring painful personal traumas -- including his stroke, heart failure, and marital infidelities -- all as learning moments for the reader. The resulting volume is as engrossing as a detective story, emotionally moving, and teaches far better than any textbook. Every scientist, physician, and curious lay reader will wish to devour this succulent brain food.(Solomon H. Snyder, M.D.)Hobson, world-renowned and respected psychiatrist and neuroscientist, here elucidates how our brains work by sharing the captivating story of his life. Provocatively self-exposing, the book reads as a run-beaten train and uncovers the newest theories on the function of consciousness, sleep, and dreams. Popular brain science at its best. Hobson here presents a new kind of book: a 'biopsychography.' Learning neurobiology never was so fascinating as through the memoires of this scientific rebel. Psychoanalysis finally gets substituted by experiment-driven biological science.(Steven Laureys, Coma Science Group, Liège)Many scientists write lay expositions of their research. Others do memoirs. Hobson, one of the world's most eminent sleep researchers, provides a unique amalgam. He recounts his life history, employing diverse episodes to convey insights into brain function. Hobson is frank to a fault, baring painful personal traumas -- including his stroke, heart failure, and marital infidelities -- all as learning moments for the reader. The resulting volume is as engrossing as a detective story, emotionally moving, and teaches far better than any textbook. Every scientist, physician, and curious lay reader will wish to devour this succulent brain food.(Solomon H. Snyder, Johns Hopkins Medical School)The gripping autobiography of the life of a most remarkable man. Hobson is a worthy rival to Sigmund Freud as the most important dream theorist ever. InDream Lifewe are treated to a new kind of memoir -- a 'biopsychography' -- a form of writing that involves simultaneously understanding one's own life from the subjective, phenomenological point of view and from an objective evolutionary-neuroscientific point of view. Unlike most every other theorist of consciousness, Hobson has been studying consciousness, both his own and that of thousands of sleep subjects, for over half a century. The life of a most remarkable man and a primer in the nature and function of the waking and sleeping mind. Deeply personal and deeply impersonal at the same time. A compelling model for how all of us might work to truthfully understand ourselves given that we are 'subjectively objective/objectively subjective' beings. An exemplary exercise in what self-knowing might look like in the 21st century.(Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University)This remarkably candid and unconventional memoir provides a fascinating account of the life of the mind, as lived and boldly explored by one of the foremost brain scientists of our time. The details of Hobson's youthful escape from the Siren call of psychoanalysis, and the fruits of his subsequent and revolutionary research on sleep and dreaming, bear witness to a challenging and passionate quest. Along the way, we learn just how the study of sleep and dreaming have supplied a 'royal road' to the understanding of consciousness.(Frank J. Sulloway, University of California, Berkeley, author ofFreud, Biologist of the MindandBorn to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives)Description
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Overview
Aiming squarely at Freud, Hobson and a succession of collaborators documented people's sleep cycles, monitored their brain waves, and tracked chemical changes in the brain. In a series of books driven by five decades of research, Hobson argued that what's really happening when we dream is that our forebrains -- the center of thinking and memory -- are offline, while our visual, auditory, and emotional centers are not only online, but lit up. Bizarre and powerful dreams aren't caused by repressed desire, he argued, but by biology. Dreams may be fun to think about, but they're really just a side effect of sleep.(Boston Globe)Many scientists write lay expositions of their research. Others do memoirs. Hobson, one of the world's most eminent sleep researchers, provides a unique amalgam. He recounts his life history, employing diverse episodes to convey insights into brain function. Hobson is frank to a fault, baring painful personal traumas -- including his stroke, heart failure, and marital infidelities -- all as learning moments for the reader. The resulting volume is as engrossing as a detective story, emotionally moving, and teaches far better than any textbook. Every scientist, physician, and curious lay reader will wish to devour this succulent brain food.(Solomon H. Snyder, M.D.)Hobson, world-renowned and respected psychiatrist and neuroscientist, here elucidates how our brains work by sharing the captivating story of his life. Provocatively self-exposing, the book reads as a run-beaten train and uncovers the newest theories on the function of consciousness, sleep, and dreams. Popular brain science at its best. Hobson here presents a new kind of book: a 'biopsychography.' Learning neurobiology never was so fascinating as through the memoires of this scientific rebel. Psychoanalysis finally gets substituted by experiment-driven biological science.(Steven Laureys, Coma Science Group, Liège)Many scientists write lay expositions of their research. Others do memoirs. Hobson, one of the world's most eminent sleep researchers, provides a unique amalgam. He recounts his life history, employing diverse episodes to convey insights into brain function. Hobson is frank to a fault, baring painful personal traumas -- including his stroke, heart failure, and marital infidelities -- all as learning moments for the reader. The resulting volume is as engrossing as a detective story, emotionally moving, and teaches far better than any textbook. Every scientist, physician, and curious lay reader will wish to devour this succulent brain food.(Solomon H. Snyder, Johns Hopkins Medical School)The gripping autobiography of the life of a most remarkable man. Hobson is a worthy rival to Sigmund Freud as the most important dream theorist ever. InDream Lifewe are treated to a new kind of memoir -- a 'biopsychography' -- a form of writing that involves simultaneously understanding one's own life from the subjective, phenomenological point of view and from an objective evolutionary-neuroscientific point of view. Unlike most every other theorist of consciousness, Hobson has been studying consciousness, both his own and that of thousands of sleep subjects, for over half a century. The life of a most remarkable man and a primer in the nature and function of the waking and sleeping mind. Deeply personal and deeply impersonal at the same time. A compelling model for how all of us might work to truthfully understand ourselves given that we are 'subjectively objective/objectively subjective' beings. An exemplary exercise in what self-knowing might look like in the 21st century.(Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University)This remarkably candid and unconventional memoir provides a fascinating account of the life of the mind, as lived and boldly explored by one of the foremost brain scientists of our time. The details of Hobson's youthful escape from the Siren call of psychoanalysis, and the fruits of his subsequent and revolutionary research on sleep and dreaming, bear witness to a challenging and passionate quest. Along the way, we learn just how the study of sleep and dreaming have supplied a 'royal road' to the understanding of consciousness.(Frank J. Sulloway, University of California, Berkeley, author ofFreud, Biologist of the MindandBorn to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives)Description
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You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
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