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Treating Type A Behavior- And Your Heart [Hardcover]

Meyer Friedman (Author)
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August 12, 1984
For over a decade, "Type A" has been a household term, thanks in large part to Meyer Friedman, M.D., co-author of the original bestselling Type A Behavior and Your Heart. Now, in collaboration with Diane Ulmer, R.N., M.S., Dr. Friedman tells Type A personalities -- the more than half of urban American males (and a growing number of females) driven by compulsive time urgency, aggressive competitiveness, and free-floating hostility -- how to reduce their alarmingly high risk of coronary heart disease.

Based on an exhaustive four year study, Treating Type A Behavior -- And Your Heart reveals:
-- How to spot the Type A personality -- in yourself, your family, or your friends
-- How adjusting to life in the slow lane can free you from the threat of heart attack
-- How the wrong diet can be a quick killer
-- The deadly pitfalls of exercise
-- How changing your work habits, your emotional responses, even your speech patterns, can mean both a longer -- and a happier -- life.
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For over a decade, "Type A" has been a household term, thanks in large part to Meyer Friedman, M.D., co-author of the original bestselling Type A Behavior and Your Heart. Now, in collaboration with Diane Ulmer, R.N., M.S., Dr. Friedman tells Type A personalities -- the more than half of urban American males (and a growing number of females) driven by compulsive time urgency, aggressive competitiveness, and free-floating hostility -- how to reduce their alarmingly high risk of coronary heart disease.

Based on an exhaustive four year study, Treating Type A Behavior -- And Your Heart reveals:
-- How to spot the Type A personality -- in yourself, your family, or your friends
-- How adjusting to life in the slow lane can free you from the threat of heart attack
-- How the wrong diet can be a quick killer
-- The deadly pitfalls of exercise
-- How changing your work habits, your emotional responses, even your speech patterns, can mean both a longer -- and a happier -- life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 285 pages
  • Publisher: Knopf; 1st edition (August 12, 1984)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0394522869
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394522869
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,981,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book should earn Meyer Friedman an Nobel prize., December 21, 1997
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This book gives tremendous insight into the psycological causes and cures of excess stress in one's life. The depth of knowledge revealed requires multiple readings (would you believe studying) to fully absorb. Even after taking the one year long type A behavior reduction course given by the Meyer Friedman Institute I find previously un absorbed relevant information in this book during my on going re-readings. Meyer Friedman through this book has definitely helped me gain some control of my respopnse to stressful situations. Previous to my exposure to this book I did not know that I had elements of type A behavior. Now I understand how much type A behavior has affected my life, even though most people think that I am a very easy going person. The book explains how and why type A behavoir is self masking ( I have given copies of this book to two type A people I know and they both have not read it) and is so much broader in scope than the stereo typical image most people have of it. The cure and treatment section of the book is much more extensive and to the heart of the problem than the typical self help stress books that don't go much further than giving you a check list and telling you to "don't worry, be happy". The mental exercizes and drills detailed do redirect one's perspective which is listed as the real cause of type A response and the resulting stress induced in every body involved. My only aggravation with the type A behavior modification routine given in the book is that it takes too long.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!, October 18, 2009
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For all high achievers, this book is a God send. It helps a person to identify Type A behavior and it provides good advice that can help to treat this addiction. Read it for your family and for your health.
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