I Want to Sleep: Unlearning Insomnia - Treat Yourself to a Good Night
by Dr. Siegfried Haug
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Author: Dr. Siegfried HaugEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-23
ISBN: 1432720724
Number of pages: 168
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Book Reviews of I Want to Sleep: Unlearning Insomnia - Treat Yourself to a Good Night
Book Review: Weird book, not helfpul, not useful - very NEW AGE
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is just plain friggin weird. I didn't find it helpful and it wasn't useful. It pissed me off when all was said and done. It has a real new-agey approach - make friends with your mind, stop scaring yourself - and think better thoughts, type stuff.
The writing is horrifically disjointed and stream of conscious. It's written vis a vis conversations between HAUG and his patients. And proper dialogue formatting has been tossed to the wind, which is what I plan to do with this book after I finish my review.
It's a crazy book, poorly written with the Docs brilliant insights (he thinks so himself) that make you think, "DUHHHH."
Quite frankly I am a bit shocked that this book scored so many rave reviews. I am starting to believe the conspirators who claim that Amazon authors get their sales and marketing teams to pump up their ratings with rave reviews.
Overall the book wasted my time, pissed me off and convinced me to try to live on four or five hours a sleep a night. It just may have to be my lifestyle.
Summary of I Want to Sleep: Unlearning Insomnia - Treat Yourself to a Good Night
Treat Yourself to a Good Night's Sleep
I Want to Sleep is an invitation to make peace with sleep rather than war on insomnia.
When an estimated 76 percent of American adults use medications for troubled sleeping, and over 20 percent (the majority women) suffer from chronic insomnia, this book offers a fresh and promising perspective.
Studies show that sleeplessness rarely is pathological in itself. It is a symptom caused by stress. Dr. Haug, a veteran psychotherapist, takes us one step deeper: Insomnia is not necessarily caused by stressful circumstances, but by how we handle them. During the day we may forge ahead using pressure. For sleeping at night, however, this proves to be the most counterproductive approach of all. If you habitually force performance by scaring yourself, insomnia might well be a needed wake-up call.
Using real case studies and step-by-step guidance, Dr. Haug illustrates how to embrace sleep, rather than fight sleeplessness. Unlearning insomnia means changing your allegiance from being wired to being tired. I Want to Sleep is a practical, necessary, and engaging book. It is a hopeful and readable gift for all the sleepless people we love.
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