How Gayle Greene has managed to write one book as well as having a full teaching career, is extraordinary. In fact she has written several but this book is especially personal, having wrestled with insomnia since her teens. Her exploration is very thoroughly researched, witty and has a cracking index/5(96). · Gayle Greene has written a wonderfully witty and harrowing memoir of her life with insomnia. Insomniacs will find a lot to empathize with here, as she recounts each failed treatment and wacky solution prescribed by professionals and non-professionals (most of whom are 'normal sleepers') who just don't get it/5. Greene (literature women’s studies, Scripps Coll., Claremont, CA; The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation) has lived with insomnia for as long as she can remember, and in this engaging treatise-which she describes as 'very personal wrung out of my life’s blood'-she takes readers into the world of sleep research, sleep clinics, pharmaceuticals, sleeping potions, .
Gayle Greene's "Insomniac" is the only mainstream book that takes insomnia--and more importantly, insomniacs--seriously. It is NOT another one of those manuals with idiotic clichéd advice, such as "Don't drink coffee after 5pm;" "Drink hot milk before going to bed;" and "Just relax, and stop worrying so much," etc. Gayle Greene 'gets it' as only another insomniac can. She educates, advises, and comforts with a steady, sympathetic hand." Timothy Miler, PhD "The good news is that Gayle Greene's book is all you ever need to read on the subject of sleeplessness; the bad news for fellow insomniacs is that reading it even in bed will fail to lull you to sleep.". Gayle Greene, author of Insomniac, explains how sleepless nights can have a devastating effect on daily routines. She says that chronic insomnia is often mistaken as "a bad night" and that few.
Gayle Greene. Missing Persons. Insomniac. The Woman Who Knew Too Much. Academic Work. I spent the first few decades of my writing life writing books and articles on Shakespeare, Doris Lessing, feminist criticism, but then I became interested in women’s health activism and began a book on breast cancer activism which morphed into a book on. How Gayle Greene has managed to write one book as well as having a full teaching career, is extraordinary. In fact she has written several but this book is especially personal, having wrestled with insomnia since her teens. Her exploration is very thoroughly researched, witty and has a cracking index. Greene (literature women’s studies, Scripps Coll., Claremont, CA; The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation) has lived with insomnia for as long as she can remember, and in this engaging treatise-which she describes as 'very personal wrung out of my life’s blood'-she takes readers into the world of sleep research, sleep clinics, pharmaceuticals, sleeping potions, alternative medicine, and sleep physiology and psychology.
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