Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
Rubin Naiman is a psychologist specialising in sleep and dream medicine, and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. His latest book is Hush: A Book of Bedtime Contemplations (2014).
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Sleep and dreams
Falling for sleep
When wakefulness is seen as the main event, no wonder so many have trouble sleeping. Can we rekindle the joy of slumber?
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Sleep and dreams
In exile from the dreamscape
We live in a wake-centric world that devalues dreaming, yet we need to experience dreams to be our authentic selves
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This question seems to presume that humility and self-confidence are mutually exclusive. I believe humility can offer us another kind of “Self”-confidence – one that doesn’t rely on our personal, egotistical, little self, but rather confides in the larger, archetypal Self Jung described. Thank you for this important essay.
Thank you very much for this important article.
Thank you for this important piece. I’d like to add that hard boundaries between the indoor and outside world are a critcal factor in the epidemic of insomnia. Disentrainment from the natural modulation forces of light and darkness as well as temperature rhythms have severely damaged our circdian rhythms and, consequently, our sleep and dreams. Restoring permeability in architecture is essential both our environmental and public health.
How to sleep well again
Rubin NaimanAlthough articles like this one (and there are many of them) are mostly accurate, they are misleading and ultimately not helpful. As a psychologist and sleep specialist who has treated thousands of insomnia patients over the last three decades I am familar with the data and recommendations Chris James discusses. There are three major problems here: 1) CBT-I is indeed the gold standard for treatment, but it fails about 25-40% of the time, especially with more chronic and severe forms of insomnia. It also fails to produce significant changes in quality of life measures. And it tethers one to waking consciousness. 2) These laundry lists of recommemndations can be overwhelming and frequently ...