J. Allan Hobson (1933–2021)
Auteur van Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction
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J. Allan Hobson is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Fotografie: Allan Hobson at his home in East Burke, Vermont. Credit: Metonyme
Werken van J. Allan Hobson
Abnormal States of Brain and Mind: Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (1989) 3 exemplaren
The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process 1 exemplaar
Sognare. Una nuova visione mente-cervello 1 exemplaar
El cerebro soñador 1 exemplaar
El cerebro soñador 1 exemplaar
Neurobiologia del sonno e del sogno 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Hobson, John Allan
- Geboortedatum
- 1933-06-03
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2021-07-07
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- East Burke, Vermont, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- kidney failure (diabetes complications)
- Woonplaatsen
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Opleiding
- Harvard University (MD)
Wesleyan University (BA - English)
Loomis School - Beroepen
- professor (Psychiatry)
psychiatrist
dream researcher - Organisaties
- MacArthur Foundation Mind-Body Network
Harvard University (Medical School)
Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Director, Laboratory of Neurophysiology) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Boylston Medical Society
Benjamin Rush Gold Medal for Best Scientific Exhibit
Distinguished Scientist Award of the Sleep Research Society (1998)
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- 22
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- 857
- Populariteit
- #29,859
- Waardering
- 3.2
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- 9
- ISBNs
- 62
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- 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.… (meer)