Sleep paralysis
Subtitle: night-mares, nocebos, and the mind-body connection
By: Shelley R. Adler.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780813548852; 9780813548869
Subjects: Nightmares; Sleep disorders; Mind and body
Description: Shelley R. Adler's fifteen years of field and archival research focus on the ways in which night-mare attacks have been experienced and interpreted throughout history and across cultures and how, in a unique example of the effect of nocebo (placebo's evil twin), the combination of meaning and biology may result in sudden nocturnal death.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.