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Adaptive Theory of Sleep Psychology
When sleep takes place, however, the relation of sleep to hypnosis ceases. This hypnagogic state occurs in all individuals and is markedly protracted in insomnia, particularly in those subjects who complain of absolute loss of sleep. In this hypnagogic state, many peculiar psychic and motor phenomena may appear, and there is also obtained, as in […]
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Regenerative Theory of Sleep
Sometimes insomnia may be due to the development of a fixed idea that sleep is impossible. One patient said, “I cannot get it out of my skull that I am not going to sleep.” Janet had studied in great detail a case in which the sleeplessness was due to a fixed idea.1 In this case, […]
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