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...WORLD (236 pp.)-Hans Ruesch-Harper...
...just as catching and as hard to cure. When a tense, anxious man tries to hide his feelings, other people "sense" what he is up against and start worrying too. In fact, it may be the tenseness of trying to hide tenseness that infects others, say Drs. Jurgen Ruesch and A. Rodney Prestwood of the University of California Medical School, in the current Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry...
...drinking, smoking or sexual promiscuity, say the California researchers. None of these does them any good. Actually, it is hard for overanxious people to win, no matter what they do: those who practice rigid self-control in normal times are likely to break down in a crisis. However, Drs. Ruesch and Prestwood believe that people "who in daily life . . . might miss their streetcars or forget their umbrellas . . . tend to tolerate their anxiety in emergency situations much better," because they have discharged their anxiety little by little...
...clue to an effective treatment for anxiety, say Ruesch and Prestwood, can be found in the nursery. "There is a natural impulse for the normal mother to alleviate the anxiety of the child by picking it up," a method which usually works. Trie doctors do not advocate rocking or dandling grownups, but they insist that an adult's need to share his anxieties, preferably with a loved one, is as great as an infant's. "The successful management of anxiety generated in daily life seems possible only through the process of sharing and communication," the researchers conclude. "[This...
...Ruesch and Bowman do not bother to define "middle class." Peter H. Odegard and E. Allen Helms in American Politics (Harper; 947) say, "Definitions of social and economic classes in modern society are difficult to make, nd particularly so in the United States. . . . The middle class might be defined as including those whose income is derived from salaries, commissions, or fees paid for services...