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Case Studies in Insomnia

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  • © 1991

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Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry (CIPS)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Specific Behavioral Techniques

  3. Psychotherapeutic Techniques and Pharmacotherapy

  4. Comprehensive and Integrated Approaches

  5. Disorders of the Sleep—Wake Schedule

  6. Specific Populations

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About this book

If ever a book could be called timely, this is it. Sleep disorders medicine has made rapid advances in recent years. The field has attained growing respectability, with a textbook recently published, a congressionally man­ dated National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, and a growing public awareness of the importance of sleep disorders. However, this rapid growth has made the discrepancy among certain components of the field all the more obvious. Thus, we find that patients who complain of insom­ nia are almost never in the majority of those seen in sleep disorders centers, in spite of the well-known fact that the prevalence of such individ­ uals in our society is by far the largest. Current articles on insomnia abound, but they tend to be facile recitations of diagnosis and impractical global recommendations for treat­ ment, without providing the essential details. Indeed, the clinical profes­ sions really do not know what to do about insomnia. This is reflected in a number of observations I have made in the recent past. For example, the majority of individuals who complain of insomnia take alcohol, aspirin, over-the-counter medications, hot baths, and a host of other nostrums, but rarely seek a physician. In the unlikely event that a physician is consulted, he is likely to prescribe a sleep medication but without any particular consistency, or any clear instructions on its use.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sleep Disorders Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

    Peter J. Hauri

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Case Studies in Insomnia

  • Editors: Peter J. Hauri

  • Series Title: Critical Issues in Psychiatry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9586-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43791-5Published: 31 August 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-9588-2Published: 31 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-9586-8Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 254

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology

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