J. Allan Hobson (1933–2021)
Autore di Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction
Sull'Autore
J. Allan Hobson is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Fonte dell'immagine: Allan Hobson at his home in East Burke, Vermont. Credit: Metonyme
Opere di J. Allan Hobson
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Hobson, John Allan
- Data di nascita
- 1933-06-03
- Data di morte
- 2021-07-07
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di morte
- East Burke, Vermont, USA
- Causa della morte
- kidney failure (diabetes complications)
- Luogo di residenza
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University (MD)
Wesleyan University (BA - English)
Loomis School - Attività lavorative
- professor (Psychiatry)
psychiatrist
dream researcher - Organizzazioni
- MacArthur Foundation Mind-Body Network
Harvard University (Medical School)
Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Director, Laboratory of Neurophysiology) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Boylston Medical Society
Benjamin Rush Gold Medal for Best Scientific Exhibit
Distinguished Scientist Award of the Sleep Research Society (1998)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 22
- Utenti
- 857
- Popolarità
- #29,859
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 62
- Lingue
- 6
This is a book about the biology of sleep and dreams—EEGs and neurotransmitters, rather than pop-psychology—and its author has little patience with the latter. It’s not just Freud though; throughout history people have concentrated on the content of dreams, for everything from medical diagnosis to fortune-telling, from religious prophesy to psychoanalysis, and Hobson isn’t saying that dreams have no meaning. What he is saying is that when you stop trying to read things into the content of dreams by “interpreting” specific details, and look at their form instead, you finally begin to get somewhere. And by “form” he means their more general features, the underlying characteristics shared by all dreams, as well as what the sleeping brain itself is doing while dreaming them.
This of course means neuroscience, and Dreaming reads like a progress report of where this had got to by the 2000s. It covers: the eclipsing of psychology by biology; then brainwaves and the biochemistry of sleep; dream disorders; dreams and mental illness; dreaming, memory and learning; and he considers what dreaming might be for (there’s no evidence that the content of dreams has any significant influence on our waking behaviour for example). An interesting read, written in prose which is both clear and (particularly when talking about Sigmund Freud) lively.… (altro)