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Book review
Paradox lost: midnight in the battleground of sleep and dreams
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Edited by Carlos H Schenck. Published by Extreme-Nights, LLC, 2006, £17.10 (hardcover), pp 435. ISBN 0-9763734-0-8
This is a unique and extraordinary book written by a psychiatrist widely recognised as an international authority on parasomnias in general and random eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) in particular. Those looking for a comprehensive or conventional textbook on matters “going bump in the night” may be disappointed by the eclectic and extremely personal style of the author. Indeed, it is a little difficult to understand at whom the book is primarily aimed. Published, it seems, using the author’s own resources after 15 years’ gestation, the core of …