03282nam 2200649 a 450 991078997940332120230725032844.01-283-86446-00-8135-5237-010.36019/9780813552378(CKB)2670000000155078(EBL)862760(OCoLC)778339945(SSID)ssj0000614567(PQKBManifestationID)11440171(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000614567(PQKBWorkID)10605739(PQKB)10071389(MiAaPQ)EBC862760(MdBmJHUP)muse19691(DE-B1597)530229(DE-B1597)9780813552378(Au-PeEL)EBL862760(CaPaEBR)ebr10537895(CaONFJC)MIL417696(EXLCZ)99267000000015507820100226d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSleep paralysis[electronic resource] night-mares, nocebos, and the mind-body connection /Shelley R. AdlerNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press20111 online resource (181 p.)Studies in medical anthropologyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4885-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --Introduction --1. Consistencies: Cross-cultural Patterns --2. Continuities: A Transhistorical Bestiary --3. The Night-mare on the Analyst's Couch --4. The Night-mare in the Sleep Lab --5. The Night-mare, Traditional Hmong Culture, and Sudden Death --6. The Night-mare and the Nocebo: Beliefs That Harm --Conclusion --Notes --References --IndexSleep Paralysis explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. In its original meaning a night-mare was the nocturnal visit of an evil being that threatened to press the life out of its victim. Today, it is known as sleep paralysis-a state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often frightening hallucinations. Culture, history, and biology intersect to produce this terrifying sleep phenomenon. Although a relatively common experience across cultures, it is rarely recognized or understood in the contemporary United States. 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.Studies in medical anthropology.NightmaresSleep disordersMind and bodyNightmares.Sleep disorders.Mind and body.154.6Adler Shelley R.1963-1486669MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789979403321Sleep paralysis3706241UNINA