Sleep Restriction Therapy (1987)

Record 018 · Rest · 1987

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Sleep Restriction Therapy

Arthur Spielman

“Spielman's protocol of cutting time in bed to match actual sleep, then titrating up.”

Counterintuitive and effective: compress the sleep window, raise efficiency, then add minutes. Still core CBT-I.

Opened sleep dose as a scheduled window.

Official site
  • Sleep window compression
  • Efficiency titration
  • CBT-I core method

Shrink the night until it fills.