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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sleep Training your Child (Complete Idiot's Guide to)

Ph.D., Melissa Burnham, Jennifer Lawler

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Many Ideas That Work 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Idiot's Guide to Sleep Training For Your Child by Melissa M. Burnham, Ph.D., and Jennifer Lawler, Ph.D. is well worth buying. Dr. Burnham is an Early Childhood Education and the book is highly acclaimed by Dr. Judith Owens, director of a Childhood Sleep Disorders Clinic. Using the unusual approach of considering all the options thoughtfully and with great insight, the authors discuss the pros and cons of every method of helping your child sleep through the night naturally. Of course, every parent is aware there are many different "experts" who tout different methods, and these guides come and go almost as fads, but this book discusses each and how and when it might be useful, while stressing the importance of selecting one method that works for the parents' philosophy and the household and then sticking to it so as not to confuse the baby or young child. There is also a special section dealing with special needs children and a section on using Yoga, Massage, and other physical techniques. The book is organized with easy to find selections that are pertinent to each situation and Melissa's own note about each method is highlighted. The book is excellent and would make one of the best possible new baby gifts

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Putting every child’s sleep difficulties to bed for good.

Since all children are different, even experienced parents may encounter problems with a new baby or young child who has trouble sleeping. In this guide, you will discover how to deal with your baby’s changing sleep schedule, health issues that can affect a baby’s sleep, what to do about different types of crying, and more.
• Includes advice for babies, toddlers, and beyond—all in a 2-color interior

Sleep to Save Your Life: The Complete Guide to Living Longer and Healthier Through Restorative Sleep

Gerard T. Lombardo, Henry Ehrlich

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Read This To Save Your Life! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Sleep To Save Your Life has helped me and my children, long-time sufferers of various sleep problems. We feel much better in the daytime when we've had restful sleep at night.
Written in a smart and conversational tone, the book is completely scientific, accurate, and thorough while retaining its accessibility to all readers. If your health is not reason enough to read this book by a top sleep doctor, the amusing anecdotes and compelling examples will surely engage you.
Sleep to Save Your Life is a valuable resource for anyone who would like to get a good night's rest!

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We're supposed to spend one-third of our lives sleeping. But today a shortage of sleep—and of the right kind of sleep—is undermining our productivity, relationships, and health. Sleep problems can contribute to diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, depression, and diabetes, and they add stress to our already hectic lives. In Sleep to Save Your Life, noted sleep expert Gerard T. Lombardo, M.D., reveals the science behind these problems and what to do about them. As director of one of New York City's busiest sleep centers, Dr. Lombardo works with the sleep problems of executives, shift workers, women, children, and the elderly in "the city that never sleeps." He offers detailed strategies for getting the best treatment—and the best sleep—possible.

Sleeping Like a Baby : A Sensitive and Sensible Approach to Solving Your Child's Sleep Problems

Avi Sadeh

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"Why doesn't my baby sleep better?" weary parents ask. "How can we get more sleep?" There are as many answers to these questions as there are babies and families, says Dr Avi Sadeh in this helpful and reassuring (some may say indispensable) book. Based on his years of research with sleep-disturbed babies and their sleep-deprived parents, Dr Sadeh suggests a wide variety of practical solutions to babies' and young children's sleep problems. Other experts may recommend one strict approach to changing a baby's sleep habits, but a single remedy fails to take into account a baby's uniqueness and the dynamics of his or her family, Dr Sadeh contends. He helps parents first to understand the natural sleep patterns of babies, and then to consider their own family's situation and needs. In an accessible style designed to ease anxious parents' worries, Dr Sadeh describes the various sleep problems of early childhood, outlines treatment possibilities, and details the pros and cons of each of these choices. This book will appeal not only to sleepless parents seeking relief but also to those who are curious about the most recent findings in children's sleep research. Dr Sadeh addresses a full range of questions: What is the importance of sleep to a baby? How do babies in different cultures sleep? How is sleep related to development? What causes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? How do babies calm themselves? What are the advantages and disadvantages of communal sleeping? With up-to-date answers to these questions and more, Dr Sadeh offers parents and professionals all the information they need to help babies and their families to sleep better.

Getting Your Baby To Sleep: Lifesaving Techniques and Advice So You Can Rest, Too (Mommy Rescue Guide)

Cynthia MacGregor

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You may feel like life is just one mini-crisis after another, but don't despair. With Mommy Rescue Guides, relief is at your fingertips! These quick, easy-to-use guides provide issue-specific solutions and advice that you can count on when you need it most.

You must be tired! All new mothers are. But you can learn how to help yourself and your baby with Mommy Rescue Guide: Getting Your Baby to Sleep. With this crucial guide, you will learn failsafe techniques that ensure that both you and your baby get the sleep that you need. This essential guide will help you to understand:

• how to establish a sleeping schedule
• how breastfeeding affects sleep patterns
• how your baby's place in your bed varies from sleeping in a crib
• and much, much, more

Practical tips and easy-to-follow advice will save you and your baby from another restless night. Mommy Rescue Guide: Getting Your Baby to Sleep is your dream come true!

Seminar on Dream Analysis. C.G. Jung (Jung Seminars) (v. 1)

William McGuire

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A few comments 5 out of 5 stars.
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I just had a few comments on this book. I cover a lot of ground in this review, ranging from depth psychology to neurobiology, so I apologize in advance for that, but most of it is relevant to the discussion of dreams and the brain.

While I like Jung and am very familiar with his ideas, and notwithstanding the fact that he has faired better than Freud as far as his long-term reputation goes in recent decades (and he's certainly a better authority than most to cite here), he still has that fascination with dreams which he and many depth psychologists of the day inherited from the 19th century European mystical and early psychological tradition.

Unfortunately, in contrast to previous decades (especially the pre-60s era) where Freudian therapists were all the rage and were portrayed in films like Mirage (which starred Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman) and Psycho as heros engaged in life or death battles with the dark forces of the subconscious, psychotherapy and psychoanalytic theory has not faired that well scientifically in recent decades, and the obsession with dreams is another aspect of their focus which hasn't worked out very well, either.

So, while I certainly respect and admire many of the early psychologists, and they were great pioneers in many ways, and some of their ideas are still important, nevertheless, a lot of what they said has to be taken now with a considerable grain of salt. It doesn't mean that dreams are completely valueless, but they're of much less significance than has been claimed in the past.

However, the most serious critique of the psycholanalytic (and others) view of dreams comes from recent research into the brain and neurobiology. The problem is that dreams are really not what people think at all most of the time--which is some sort of cyptic but profound message from the unconscious mind.

For example, consider the question of why most dreams seem to consist of collections or sequences of difficult to interpret images, thoughts, and memories that seem to be combined or strung together in a not very logical and difficult to interpret fashion. The reason why, contrary to the popular belief that this reflects some profound and not easily discernible meaning, is that the order really is almost random, or is governed by very weak associational processes. The reason why this is, and why most dreams seem so puzzling and difficult to understand is that when you go to sleep, the memory areas of the brain located in the temporal cortex become more active through a process known as corticocipedal disinhibition, allowing memories, images, and thoughts to flood into consciousness willy-nilly. This is prevented or inhibited during normal waking, otherwise the flood of thoughts and images would interfere with normal memory retrieval and thinking processes.

This explanation wasn't understood until about 30 years ago and comes from important research into the neurobiology of dreaming and consciousness. Most people, though, still have these old, pre-scientific notions that they have some sort of profound significance. If you're under a lot of stress, such as on the job, or whatever, and you dream that your boss just fired you, okay, that's different. Obviously the dream has some relation to reality (which in this case shouldn't be that hard to figure out).

But most of the time the dream will be something like the following: boss calls you into his or her office and tells you to fly away with him in a great, golden chariot with six magical, flying, white horses on a secret mission into the future, or the past, or whatever. So you do. At that point you wake up and think to yourself, "What the hell did that mean? I don't know but it must be something very profound. It must mean my boss really likes me after all, and that I'm destined to do great things on the job since we flew off together into the sunset in this great chariot drawn by six flying, white horses."

Unfortunately, the simple fact is that the dream doesn't really mean anything. It means you had a dream that used as its point of departure your boss or job, since that's what's currently on your mind, but after that, the free-associational flow of dream images and thoughts took over and produced the usual semi-nonsensical concatenation of dream images and thoughts.

I realize this explanation won't appeal to many people, but as someone wiser than I once said, "God is a mathematician, and so the universe works according to physical and biological laws, rather than as mystics, poets, lovers, romantics, and New Agers (and adherents of other touch-feely philosophies and beliefs), would have liked."

Despite that, I give the book five stars in recognition of Jung's tremendous historical importance to the field of psychology, especially his work in archetypes which has influenced countless of other writers and thinkers such as Joseph Campbell.

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While the basis of these seminars is a series of 30 dreams of a male patient of Jung's, the commentary ranges associatively over a broad expanse of Jung's learning and experience. A special value of the seminar is the close view it gives of Jung's method of dream analysis through amplification. The editorial aim has been to preserve the integrity of Jung's text.

The Enchanted World of Sleep

Peretz Lavie

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Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we really need? What causes sleep apnea, nacrolepsy and insomnia - and what can be done about these sleep disorders? Why do older people have more trouble sleeping than young people? This work provides an introduction to the subject of sleep that answers many of our questions. Peretz Lavie surveys the entire field of sleep research and sleep medicine - from the structure of sleep stages and the brain centres involved in sleep regulation to the reasons for and significance of dreams, the importance of sleep in maintaining good health, and the function of biological rhythms - interweaving facts with case histories, anecdotes, and personal reflections. We learn, for example, about: development of sleep patterns from infancy to adulthood and in the aged; the wide variety of sleep habits in animals; dreams of Holocaust survivors; sleep under the threat of Scud missile attacks; how melatnonin influences sleep; the story of the "acrobat's leap" sleep-deprivation experiments in the Israeli army; how to treat insomnia; and what to do with a baby who refuses to go to sleep.

Sleep Thieves

Stanley Coren

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Excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I ordered this book just because Dr. Coren is my favorite author (How To Speak Dog, The Intelligence Of The Dogs, Why We Love The Dogs We Do). I was certain that I would find this book very interesting, and I wasn't wrong. This book is truly wonderful. He explains how many hours should we sleep and what happens to us if we don't. How our mental and physical health depends on sleep, and gives advices as to how to improve the quality of our sleep.

There is a test you can perform in order to understand how many hours of sleep you need. It's just great.

I wish all doctors read this masterpiece and instead of giving Valium or whatever to people with sleeping disorders, were giving them advices taken from this book. Once more, thank you Mr.Coren

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The author of The Intelligence of Dogs offers new evidence that we are an increasingly sleep-deprived society, showing the dangerous impact of sleep loss on physical and mental health and presenting simple techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of sleep. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Rock-a-Bye Baby: 200 Ways to Help Baby (and You!) Sleep Better

Penny Warner

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New parents can now rely on more than 200 tried and true slumber solutions taken from the real sleep experts: parents grandparents nannies and doctors. Penny Warner delivers here the widest selection of time-tested tricks from classic (take a drive around the block) to quirky (fake sleep next to your baby). With lullabies nursery rhymes and lists of helpful sleep aides it's an indispensable resource. Parents can flag their favorites then relax knowing everyone will rest easy.

Sleep (Scientific American Library)

J. Allan Hobson

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Amazing 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

This book offers more information and factual data, then first assumed. You'll learn about sleep disorders, and all of the latest research. For example, did you know that the sleep attacks of narcolepsy occur at periodic intervals of 90 - 100 minutes, during waking, a frequency that collides with the onset of REM during sleep. Not only is this and other interesting facts presented in a clear manner, but the reason behind this is explained in such a concise and constructive way, that you cant help but to consider this a better page turner than most works of fiction. I recommend this to anyone to wishes to learn about the human brain, dreaming, or just sleep in general.

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We may spend up to one-third of our lives asleep--but there is no rest for the brain. On the contrary, sleeping is a time of continual, spontaneous brain activity largely independent of external stimuli. Through a brilliant examination of recent studies of sleep patterns, dreaming, and disorders such as insomnia, J. Allan Hobson reveals that we know about the physical basis of human consciousness and dispels many myths about sleeping.

Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming

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This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antituity, early Christianity, and medieval Judaism and Islam. Taken together, these pieces consitute an important first step toward a new understanding of the differences and similarities between the ways in which different cultures experience the universal yet utterly unique world of dreams.