Why Can't We Sleep? av Darian Leader

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<p><b>From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind <i>Strictly Bipolar </i>and <i>What is Madness, </i>a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can''t seem to sleep any more<br></b><br><b>''Persuasive, absorbing and refreshingly sane... [A] bracing and important intervention in the debate... Leader points the way to a richer and more humane understanding of our problems with sleep'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>One in four adults sleeps badly.<br>Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as have the incidence of sleep clinics.<br>Sleep used to be a natural state, easy as breathing, but increasingly it is an insecure commodity.<br>...Isn''t it?<br><br>Our relationship to sleep surfaces and resurfaces throughout human history, each time telling us something new about our indivudual and collective psychology. From the industrial revolution to blue-light on our phones, from the ancient art of dream interpretation to the mo