![]() ![]() The book also highlights the psychological distress many patients face when trying to remedy their behavior given the lack of awareness of parasomnias in the general medical community and a tendency to consider such patients as simply psychologically disturbed. The reader will appreciate the potential hazards and dangers to both patients and bed partners as these often bizarre behaviors during sleep become manifest, such as patients jumping out of windows or strangling or hitting their bed partners while asleep. ![]() The repertoire presented in this book of abnormal and unwanted behaviors occurring during sleep is truly remarkable. Paradox Lost: Midnight in the Battleground of Sleep and Dreams is a compilation of narratives and patient interviews meticulously gathered by Carlos Schenck, MD, stemming from more than two decades of work by Schenck and colleagues researching patients with parasomnias. ![]()
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