How to Survive Being Alive - Brossura

Welke, Elton; Dudley, Dr. Donald L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1603811605 ISBN 13: 9781603811606

Casa editrice: Coffeetown Press, 2013

Riassunto

In 1977, the theory that stress, positive as well as negative, could lead to accidents or illnesses was far outside the mainstream. How could a pleasurable and exciting event such as a promotion, a marriage, a financial windfall, a vacation, or even Christmas be a bad thing? In their book, How to Survive Being Alive, authors Elton Welke and the late Dr. Donald L. Dudley put in plain language what many doctors had always suspected-that the body responds to life's highs and lows by lowering its defenses. Dudley and Welke's introduction of life-change scales to laymen clearly identified the possible consequences of experiencing too many changes all at once or making drastic revisions in life-style. They included the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, first created by psycho-physiologists Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe, which provided a practical means of measuring the stress-related consequences that certain events and milestones can precipitate. How to Survive Being Alive dramatically and permanently changed the dialog between doctor and patient. As a direct result of its publication in 1977, many more doctors began to consider the physical and mental states of their patients, rather than simply treating symptoms. This classic guide to identifying and learning to cope with stress as well as improving interpersonal relations with others is also surprisingly relevant in our even more hectic twenty-first century world.

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L'autore:

Elton Welke graduated with a degree in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962. In years following he served as Senior Editor and Executive Editor of Sunset Magazine, Travel Editor of Better Homes and Gardens, Managing Editor of Apartment Life Magazine, consultant to Ortho Books, and contributor to National Geographic Books, Insight Guides, Time-Life publications, and to magazines and newspapers nationwide. He has authored and/or edited books for Appleton Century, Doubleday, Chronicle Books, and Lane Publishing Co. From 1990 to 1998 he was Publisher of Microsoft Press. He presently serves on the boards of two companies in Beijing, China.

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• Editore: Coffeetown Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1603811605
• ISBN 13: 9781603811606
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 212