The psychology of sleep

Chapter 62: APPENDICES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

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This work surveys sleep from psychological, physiological, practical, and moral perspectives, blending practical advice with discussion of theory and history. It addresses how much and when to sleep, causes of wakefulness such as pain and habit, and nonpharmacological methods for inducing rest, including fresh air, breathing, diet, natural living, and behavioral routines. It examines dreams, hypnotic sleep, and the special needs of invalids, critiques reliance on opiates, and explores how fear, worry, and social or economic conditions shape rest. Throughout it stresses habit formation, simplicity, and harmony with natural law as means to restore refreshing, healthful sleep.

APPENDICES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Some matters of interest mainly to students of sleep phenomena have been mentioned in the text and put in these appendices. In this way the general reader is saved the trouble of skipping in the body of the text.

Appendix “A” contains some medical information on the subject of Insomnia and sleep-inducing drugs.

Appendix “B” and “C” have been translated from the Latin by A. T. Craig especially for use in “The Gift of Sleep.” They are of value chiefly as showing the attitude of the ancients towards this natural function.

Appendix “D” gives some provisional conclusions based on a Questionnaire on Sleep. The returns are as yet incomplete.