Sleep Talking Psychology and Psychophysiology

First published in 1982. This book offers virtually everything that is publicly known about sleep-talking, with the greatest amount and most important of this information coming from the author’s own research. The work is thorough, careful, and thoughtful. It is that rare product that says just about all that can be said on a subject. In short, it is now the “authoritative work” on sleep talking, and it is likely to remain such for many years.

1. Introduction Orienting Remarks on Electrographic Features of the Sleep Cycle; Notes on the Usage of Terms in this Book; 2. Definitions of Sleep-Utterance 3. Clinical Classifications of Sleep-Utterance Syndromes 4. Demography of Sleep-Talking 5. Psychopathological Significance of Somniloquy 6. Somniloquy, Other Episodic Sleep Disorders and the Question of Hereditary Predisposition 7. Laboratory Studies on Normative and Electrographic Features of Sleep-Talking 8. Structural and Physical Aspects of Sleep-Utterance 9. Psychological Content of Somniloquy 10. Sleep-Utterance and Associated Mentation Recalled 11. Experimental Manipulation of Sleep-Talking 12. Dialogue Between Sleep-Talkers and Wakeful Observers 13. Comparison of Mentation Associated with NREM Sleep-Speech and NREM Silent Sleep 14. Special Abilities Manifested During Sleep-Talking Episodes 15. The Psychoanalytic Literature and Somniloquy 16. Miscellaneous Psychological Theories of Sleep-Utterance 17. A Contemporary Theoretical Organizing Perspective for Sleep-Utterance 18. Sleep-Talking In Relation to Cognitive Psychology: Memory, Psycholinguistics, and Aphasia 19. Pathological and Experimental States Related to Somniloquy 20. Clinical Uses of Sleep-Talking 21. Addendum: New Studies of Sleep-Talking (Heynlck, 1980a, b)

ARTHUR M. ARKIN, M. D. Department of Psychology City College of the City University of New York; Department of Psychiatry Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York