The Second International Interdisciplinary Conference on Stress and Tension Control, sponsored by the International Stress and Tension Control Society, was held at The University of Sussex, Brighton, England during the period August 30 - September 3, 1983. The Society has evolved from the American Association for the Advancem~t of Tension-Control, which met each year for five years in Chicago commen cing in 1974, and for which proceedings such as these were published annually. Because of an international flavor which the association gradually acquired the name was changed to that of The International Stress and Tension-Control Association. That organization met in London in 1979, and then in Louisville, Kentucky in 1981 in conjunc tion with The Biofeedback Society of America. The proceedings of that first international conference in London were also published by Plenum Publishing Company. (Stress and Tension Control, McGuigan, Sime and Wallace, 1981). Because the results of that first conference were so gratifying, this second conference was scheduled, with similar consequences. These proceedings are offered for the purpose of advancing our methods of coping with stress through tension control, for excessive bodily tension can indeed result from failure to adapt to the many stresses of life that we all continually face. As we are well aware, the consequences of chronic overtension can be disastrous in many ways for the human body.
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978-1-4613-2803-2 (9781461328032)
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10.1007/978-1-4613-2803-2
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Foreword.- An Overview of Contemporary Work in the Field of Stress and Tension Control.- Edmund Jacobson, Father of the Field of Relaxation.- Tension Control for Coping and for Habit Change.- On Edmund Jacobson's Way of Life.- On the Professional Accomplishments of Edmund Jacobson.- Research Strategies and Approaches.- Stress and Personality as Contributory Factors in the Causation of Cancer.- Research on Stress Ought to be Revised.- Some Clinical Observations on Muscle Tension and Expressive Movement.- Discrimination of Visceral Stimuli, Biofeedback and Self-Regulation: A Methodological Proposal.- A Model of People at High Risk to Develop Chronic Stress Related Symptoms.- Social Psychophysiology of Relaxation Training.- The Role of Substance P in Normalizing Stress Response.- Clinical Applications in Medicine, Psychology-Psychiatry, Speech Pathology and Dentistry.- Stress, Tension and Rheumatic Disease.- Neuromuscular Psychophysiology of Depression.- "Stress Headaches" from Causes in the Musculoskeletal System and their Treatment by Physical Means.- Biofeedback Treatment of Primary Raynaud's.- Biofeedback: Treatment of Essential Hypertension.- Behavioural Style, Myocardial Infarction, and Cardiovascular Responsiveness.- Tension Control in Speech Pathology.- Self-Help Groups for Agoraphobics: Their Role in Coping with Anxiety and Depression.- The Perception by Dentists and Patients of Fear in Dental Treatment.- Studies of Stress and Tension in Occupational Settings.- Occupational Stress Testing in the Real World.- Stress at Work: A Review of Australian Research.- Autogenic Training as a Stress Management Tool in Air Transport Operations.- The Effect of Autogenic Training upon the Flying Skill of Pilots Under Stress.- Reduction of Stress by Personnel atInstitutions for Child Care and for the Mentally Handicapped.- Stress and Tension Control in Education.- An Experimental Study of Relaxation Training in Swedish Schools: Psychological and Physiological Results.- Some Uses and Limitations of Stress Control Methods in a Local Authority Educational Psychology Service.- Improved Stress Management and Tension Control: A Model Program in a Community College.- Worksite Stressors and University Faculty.- Teaching Dynamic Relaxation at the University of the Third Age - Paris VI.- Methods of Coping with Stress.- Cognitive Strategies to Reduce Stress in Competitive Athletic Performance.- Physical Activity and Stress Reduction: A Review of Selected Literature.- The Physical Mirror of Stress.- The Mitchell Method of Physiological Relaxation.
