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...helped "significant numbers" of terminally ill patients survive beyond all expectations, says Psychiatrist Cohen of Boston University. "How they do it, we do not know...
...fields have sprung into being: behavioral medicine, to battle stress-related illness; psychoneuroimmunology, to explore the way emotional states affect the body's defenses. Major corporations have established elaborate stress-management programs to help harried executives cope. And around the country, but especially in mellow-minded California, says Psychiatrist Mardi Horowitz of the University of California at San Francisco, "everyone is massaging, jogging and hot-tubbing to reduce this cumulative stress...
...upheaval in society's most basic values adds greatly to the general level of anxiety. Even our pleasures are often fretful. When Psychiatrist George Serban of New York University conducted a nationwide poll of 1,008 mostly married men and women aged 18 to 60, he found that their greatest source of stress was the changes in society's attitudes toward sex, including sexual permissiveness and "the new social roles of the sexes." While stress might have once taken the form of an occasional calamity, it is now "a chronic, relentless psychosocial situation," says Dr. Paul Rosch, director...
...makes everyone anxious. But because most other kinds of stress are subjective, researchers have found it difficult to say just why a given situation is threatening. "I would die if I had to sit in a space capsule," says Boston University Psychiatrist Sanford Cohen. But while working with the early astronauts some 20 years ago, Cohen observed that "John Glenn just saw it as a job and went about it in a businesslike manner." Notes Benson: "A snowstorm is not stressful to a skier, but it is to someone who has an appointment across town...
...early 1950s, University of Washington Psychiatrist Thomas Holmes determined that the single common denominator for stress, even for an astronaut, is "the necessity of significant change in the life pattern of the individual." Holmes found that among tuberculosis patients, for example, the onset of the disease had generally followed a cluster of disruptive events: a death in the family, a new job, marriage. Stress did not cause the illness, Holmes emphasizes-"It takes a germ"-but tension did seem to promote the disease process. Holmes discovered that merely discussing upsetting events could produce physiological changes. An experiment in which sample...