Insomniac (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520259966)

I can't work, I can't think, I can't connect with anyone anymore. . . . I mope through a day's work and haven't had a promotion in years. . . . It's like I'm being sucked dry, eaten away, swallowed up, coming unglued. . . . These are voices of a few of the tens of millions who suffer from chronic insomnia. In this revelatory book, Gayle Greene offers a uniquely comprehensive account of this devastating and little-understood condition. She has traveled the world in a quest for answers, interviewing neurologists, sleep researchers, doctors, psychotherapists, and insomniacs of all sorts. What comes of her extraordinary journey is an up-to-date account of what is known about insomnia, providing the information every insomniac needs to know to make intelligent choices among medications and therapies. Insomniac is at once a field guide through the hidden terrain inhabited by insomniacs and a book of consolations for anyone who has struggled with this affliction that has long been trivialized and neglected.

Author: Gayle Greene
ISBN-10: 0520259963
ISBN-13: 9780520259966
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2008
Pages: 520
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.76w x 1.18d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/19/2009 pg. 20