Why Can't We Sleep Understanding Our Sleeping and Sleepless Minds

A short, accessible analysis of how and why humans sleep - weaving together cultural, social, economic and psychoanalytic influences in pursuit of the truth about insomnia.
One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as have the incidence of sleep clinics. Once considered a natural state, sleep is increasingly an insecure commodity.
But is this crisis really so new? Our troubled relationship to sleep - as individuals and a