The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming

The Paradox of Sleep
	Contents
	Translator\'s Introduction
	Preface to the French Editor
	1 In the Labyrinth of Sleep
	2 The Natural History of Dreaming
		The Metaphysical Theory of Dreaming
		Psychological Theories of Dreaming
		The Temporal Structure of Dreams
		The Neurobiological Basis of Dreaming
		The Mechanisms That Prepare Dreams
		Paradoxical Sleep
		What Parts of the Brain Are Needed to Trigger Dreaming?
		Brainstem \"Executive\" Structures for Paradoxical Sleep: The Machinery of Dreaming
			Postural Atonia
			The Ponto-Geniculo-Occipital System
		Permissive Systems
		Periodicity in Dreaming
		Sleep as the Guardian of Paradoxical Sleep, and the Condition for its Appearance
		Are Dreams in Our Genes?
		The Phylogeny of Dreams
		The Ontogeny of Dreams
	3 Dream Memories
		The Three Paths to Dreams
		The Approach from the \"Outside\"
		The Approach from the \"Inside\": The Study of Dream Recall
		Dreams and Recent Memory
		A Split Brain in Dreaming
		Paradoxical Sleep and Lucid Dreams
	4 Oneiric Behavior
		Oneiric Behavior in Cats
		Oneiric Behavior and Waking Behavior
		Oneiric Behavior in Humans
	5 Sleep, the Other Side of the Spirit
		The Waking Mind
		Sleep States and the Mind
		The Mind during Slow Wave Sleep
		The Problem of Sleepwalking
		Dream Consciousness
		Conclusion
	6 The Functions of Dreaming
		Before 1960
		Freud\'s Neuronal Model
		Structure and Dynamics of Freud\'s Model
		Freud\'s Model of Dreams
		Freud\'s Theory of Dreaming in the Light of the Neurophysiology of Paradoxical Sleep
		After 1960
			1. The Unconditional Supporters of the Freudian Model
			2. Those Disillusioned by the Freudian Model
			3. The Eclectics, or Highjackers of the Freudian Model
		Paradoxical Sleep, Memory, and Forgetting
		The Functions of Paradoxical Sleep during Ontogenetic Development
		Is Active Sleep Paradoxical Sleep?
		The Programming Hypothesis for Paradoxical Sleep
		Recent Concepts of the Function of Sleep and Paradoxical Sleep
	7 Is Paradoxical Sleep the Guardian of Psychological Individuality?
		Neurogenesis
		Can Paradoxical Sleep Program the Individuality of the Central Nervous System?
		Does Psychological Heredity Need Repeated Genetic Programming?
		Iterative Programming
		Mechanisms and Theoretical Conditions for Iterative Genetic Programming
		Synchronic Aspects of Programming
		Diachronic Modalities of Iterative Programming
		Deprivation of Paradoxical Sleep and Its Paradoxes
		The Paradox of the Absence of Effects of Deprivation of Paradoxical Sleep in Humans
		Learning and Paradoxical Sleep
		\"Instinctive Behavior\" and Paradoxical Sleep
		Evolution and Paradoxical Sleep
		Conclusion
	8 Forty Years of Dream Research, or The Collapse of Paradigms
		First, the Balance
		The Predictions for 1990
		The Evolution of Sleep Research and Major Achievements in the Last Decade
		A Physiological Advance: The Erection of Dreaming
		The Role of Molecular Biology in Sleep Research
		Images of the Living Brain
		The Ecological Approach
		The Ultimate Problem: The Function of Dreams
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		Sleep
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