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Sleep and Wakefulness in its new edition brings up to date the book first published in 1939. It is simultaneously a scholarly monograph and an encyclopedia with an impressive bibliographical list of 4337 items, almost entirely of papers and books that deal with the physiology of sleep and states resembling sleep. Notably included are many references to papers on the physiology of sleep and dreaming by Kleitman and his co-workers, most of which are widely known. In the long list psychoanalytic authors are represented too, though not extensively. Indeed, oddly, the little booklet here called Dream Psychology—Psychoanalysis for Beginners is the sole reference given for Freud himself, although Federn, Charles Fisher, Garma, Isakower, this reviewer and some others are given several references.
The text arises as if from this extensive reading, and the excellent list shows the page on which the work is mentioned or discussed. The book attempts a comprehensive and critical survey of the phenomena of sleep and states resembling sleep, and the thirty-six chapters are arranged in eight large divisions: 1, Functional Differences between Sleep and Wakefulness; 2, Course of Events during the Sleep Phase; 3, Periodicity; 4, Interference with Sleep and Wakefulness; 5, Spontaneous Changes in Sleep-Wakefulness Rhythm;