Attachment hypothesis of REM sleep: Toward an integration of psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology and the implications for psychopathology research

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-140

  Zborowski, Michael J ^a,b   McNamara, Patrick ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; COGNITION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DREAMING; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0032457378     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0736-9735.15.1.115     Document Type: Review

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