The Stress of LifeCompletely revised, expanded, and updated to reflect two decades of new research, this classic book on stress by the man who formulated the entire theoretical concept is unquestionably the definitive gerneral book on the subject. Defined ed as the rate of wear and tear caused by life, stress is a new concept of mental and physical illness. Dr. Selye here explains how to overcome the harmful effects of stress and how to use stress to your own advantage. He explores both biochemical and environmental facets of stress, stress and interpersonal relations, and offers readers a better understanding of their own bodies. This is also a dependable personal guide that tells you how to combat both physical and mental stress of everyday life, and how your bodily changes can help you adapt to a wide variety of situations. Unquestionably one of the great pioneers of medicine, Dr. Hans Selye, with his famous and revolutionary concept of stress, opened countless new avenues of medical treatment. |
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Page 42
... things that we do not know , or about which we are too uncertain , that handicaps our research , but the existence of things we do know and about whose interpretation we are quite certain - although they may turn out to be false . Lack ...
... things that we do not know , or about which we are too uncertain , that handicaps our research , but the existence of things we do know and about whose interpretation we are quite certain - although they may turn out to be false . Lack ...
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... things with his fresh , untrained , but still unprejudiced mind . At a more advanced stage , one may no longer be able to see the forest for the trees . ( But by that time one will have the money to buy fancy tools and hire assis- tants ...
... things with his fresh , untrained , but still unprejudiced mind . At a more advanced stage , one may no longer be able to see the forest for the trees . ( But by that time one will have the money to buy fancy tools and hire assis- tants ...
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... things my way . Here I am outside my element , the laboratory , where a proven fact is binding for everyone . Here , I have ventured into pure philoso- phy : a very dangerous thing for a medical scientist to do , and a thing for which I ...
... things my way . Here I am outside my element , the laboratory , where a proven fact is binding for everyone . Here , I have ventured into pure philoso- phy : a very dangerous thing for a medical scientist to do , and a thing for which I ...
Contents
The discovery of stress | 1 |
My first glimpse of stress | 15 |
The birth of the G A S | 29 |
Copyright | |
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