Evidence-based strategies for healing insomnia
Importance of sleep in anxiety, depression and PTSD
Insomnia: Integrative Sleep Therapy – Rubin Naiman
Revolutionary model of sleep and dreams that integrates science and spirituality
Transformative power of dreams and dreamwork for psychotherapy
Years ago, during my study of PTSD I became curious about my parents’ sleep and dreams. As holocaust survivors who had been severely traumatized, one would have expected their nights to be disrupted by grief, anxiety and nightmares. But my parents slept well. In fact, they slept exceptionally well without medication throughout their entire lives.
My parents’ experience taught me that sleep loss was not an inevitable consequence of stress or even trauma. And, as importantly, that sleep could confer protection against the greatest challenges life might bring. I learned that sleep wasn’t simply the reward of a healthy lifestyle —it was its foundation. My parents simply loved sleep. And, they taught me to do the same.
Restoring healthy sleep is a CLINICAL ISSUE for most of our clients.
Although therapists routinely encounter sleeplessness in their practice, few are adequately prepared to address it. Failure to do so can impede the treatment of mood disorders, trauma, addictions, and even relationship issues.
Restoring healthy sleep is a PERSONAL ISSUE for many psychotherapists.
I believe the unique challenges of psychotherapy place us at greater risk for sleeplessness, which that can compromise the quality of both our work and our lives.
Integrative Sleep Therapy has evolved from my personal as well as extensive clinical experience with thousands of patients over the past three decades. It is a comprehensive, multicomponent approach that integrates:
evidence-based cognitive, behavioral and environmental strategies
complementary and alternative health interventions
depth psychology and spiritual guidance
This recording presents an integrative (body-mind-spirit) treatment approach that draws on cognitive behavior therapy, natural remedies, sleep hygiene, and spiritual strategies. It also transforms our view of sleep from a medical necessity to one of life’s sustaining satisfactions.
Buy now– this is the only truly integrative sleep seminar available!
Rubin Naiman
Categorize biomedical, psychological and environmental factors contributing to insomnia.
Utilize the basic procedures for evaluating and diagnosing insomnia evaluation.
Substantiate the negative consequences of long term use of sleeping pills.
Model sleep from both a physiological as well as phenomenological perspective.
Designate six factors that suppress REM sleep/dreaming.
Appraise the role of sleep effort in insomnia and strategies for managing it.
Manage insomnia using the noise reduction approach.
Epidemic of Sleep and Dream Loss
Prevalence and trends of sleeplessness
Night fever: insomnia, inflammation, illness
Insomnia, anxiety, depression and PTSD
Environmental factors: the erosion of night
Artificial light at night (aLAN) and life pace
Cultural resistance to rest / hyperarousal
Insomnia as an addiction to waking consciousness
Insomnia as a social illness
What is Sleep? What is Dreaming?
We don’t get sleep because we don’t ‘get’ sleep
Medicalization and domestication of sleep
Suppression of night, darkness and melatonin
Nature of sleep and dreams
Deep sleep and the deep self
Rhythmic infrastructure of everything
Circadian rhythm & blues: sleep phase disorders
REM sleep, dreaming and dream loss
Traditional and spiritual views of sleep and dreams
Insomnia: Definition, Etiology and Evaluation
Types of insomnia; sleep and dream loss
3P model of etiology
Lifestyle factors in sleep loss
Iatrogenic factors: common medications and sleep
Nature deficit disorder and sleep disruption
Arrogance and hyperarousal
Biomedical factors in sleep loss
Impact of other sleep disorders
Screen and evaluate sleep and dreams
Management and Treatment of Insomnia
Noise Reduction Model (NRMI)
Taking vs. letting go of something to sleep
Biomedical factors: manage ‘body noise’
Sleeping pills: a wolf in sleep’s clothing
Botanicals, nutrition, melatonin
Nutrition and sleep
The body in sleep: gravity & stimulus control
The princess & the pee: what wakes us up at night?
Environmental factors: managing ‘bed noise’
Conditioned insomnia
Stimulus control and sleep constriction
Psychological Factors: Manage ‘Mind Noise’
CBT-I: thoughts, beliefs and meta-cognitions around sleep
Paradox of sleep effort: the ego cannot sleep
Sleeping together: the night side of relationships
Sleeping in the forest – the art of sleep
Humility as the antidote to hyperarousal
Secondary gain of primary insomnia
Dream work: interpretation, relation and healing
Bad dreams, nightmares, PTSD and shadow work
Video: sleep interview & treatment process
Transpersonal Views
Sleep and dreams as spiritual practice
Non-violent approach to night, sleep and dreams
Art of spiritual surrender
Where do you go when you go to sleep?
Fall in love with sleep again
The waking dream: re-enchanting everyday life
The US of consciousness: sleep & dream lessons for waking
Braid Theory: toward a unified consciousness
