"Stress" names a kind of grief unique to the modern period, a grief perpetually unresolved, evoked by the rapid and relentless changes characteristic of modernity. Because our grief is always unresolved, the passion of mourning is perpetually productive. Stress is also a discourse, a mutation of experience by the external power of speech, a power that can devour what it articulates. Yet, it was not until World War II, when the psychiatric difficulties of pilots and bombers in particular brought stress into the open, that stress became a topic of medical and psychological research and a named cause of disorders. The term borrows the notions of pressure and tension from the engineering world. The seeds of stress are found around 1750, when the notion of luxury changed in meaning from a vice to be avoided to a virtue to be vigorously pursued. Before this time, human existence differed from ours in such a way that we detect no stress or anything like it. The book includes a phenomenology of the experience of stress, a history of the construction of "engineered grief," and an assessment of stress management programs. Because such programs seek to make us comfortable with stress, they do not move us to bring the work of grieving to a resolution. This book will be of interest to post-modernists, phenomenologists, social constructionists, hermeneuticists, deconstructionists, social historians, and medical historians.
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ROBERT KUGELMANN is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas.
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Just after World War II, when "stress" began to proliferate in the professional literature surrounding health and illness, a revolution occurred in painting. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
engineered grief, archaic body, engineering discourse, engineering mentality, anatomized body, irritable heart, effort syndrome, stress discourse, divided existence, stress names, men under stress, stressful world, disabling professions, neurocirculatory asthenia, war neuroses, combat exhaustion, war neurosis, perceptual style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Clifford Allbutt, William James, Columbia University Press, Vintage Books, James Mackenzie, Great Britain, William Osler, Basic Books, Johns Hopkins University Press, System of Medicine, Duquesne University Press, Ivan Illich, Jackson Pollock, Michel Foucault, Oxford English Dictionary, Short History of Medicine, University of Chicago Press, American Psychiatric Association, Christopher Lasch, Clarendon Press, Harvard University Press, History of Strength of Materials, Medical History New!
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New York, United States, Clifford Allbutt, William James, Columbia University Press, Vintage Books, James Mackenzie, Great Britain, William Osler, Basic Books, Johns Hopkins University Press, System of Medicine, Duquesne University Press, Ivan Illich, Jackson Pollock, Michel Foucault, Oxford English Dictionary, Short History of Medicine, University of Chicago Press, American Psychiatric Association, Christopher Lasch, Clarendon Press, Harvard University Press, History of Strength of Materials, Medical History New!
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- A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis on 4 pages
- Strength of Materials (2 Vol. Set) by Stephen Timoshenko on 4 pages
- Stress and Coping by Alan Monat on 4 pages
- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud on 4 pages
- A Short History of Medicine by Erwin H. Ackerknecht on 4 pages
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