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I am doing a report where we have to pick a theorist and compare it to a modern theorist. Other than Freud what theorist did a more recent study on the way we sleep?

-- shawna (pradadime319@AOL.COM), March 20, 2001

Answers

Response to Freud

Hi Shawna, I think you're safe not having to read Freud because I'm not aware he had a theory of the way we sleep, but I've been wrong before. Have you checked out the Oxford book on Mind? I think it samples these kinds of issues. Also, there are text books on sleep in most college libraries. I wouldn't expect this topic to be filled with exciting explainations of colorful sexual dreams revealing a personality trait though. From what I've heard, you will be reading a lot about alpha waves and beta waves and neuron activity and interesting stuff like that. If by sleep your thinking of unconscious and you're looking for a contrast in theory work, you might try Carl Jung vs. Donald Meichenbaum that's old vs new easy contrast of approaches to the unconsciousness. Good luck, David

-- david clark (doclark@yorku.ca), March 21, 2001.

Response to Freud

There are many current theories about the function of the sleep, for example: the classical restorative ( Horne J.A. Why we Sleep: The Functions of Sleep in Humans and Other Mammals. (1988) Oxford: Oxford University Press), energy saving ( Adam K. Sleep as a restorative process and a theory to explain why. Progr. Brain Res 1980, 53:289-305. and Berger R. and Phillips N.H. Energy conservation and sleep. Behav. Brain Res 1995, 69:65-73. ) and thermoregulatory ( McGinty D. and Szymusiak R. Keeping cool: a hypothesis about the mechanisms and functions of slow wave sleep. TINS 1990, 13:12:480-487)

-- Don Willard (donwillard@hotmail.com), March 24, 2001.

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