The Truth About Stress [Paperback]

Angela Patmore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 26, 2009

We seem to be living through an epidemic of stress. Thousands of therapists, counselors and healers are devoted to protecting-and perhaps even saving-us from a disease that they say debilitates, and even kills.

Every year millions of dollars are committed to fighting stress. But are these efforts really combating stress? From symptoms to cure, in this brilliant reassessment Angela Patmore raises important questions about the way we treat a condition that has become central part of modern living. Its conclusions will cause us to profoundly reappraise the way we understand our own health and well-being.

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"'Rest in peace stress.' Scotsman * 'An intelligent book that cuts through the jargon put about by drug companies and the media alike.' - Rise * 'Patmore's erudition and industry are impressive, as is her range of reference - from Aristotle to T. S. Eliot' - Sunday Telegraph * 'Patmore's book is a welcome antidote... It is time to accept that stress theory has gone too far.' - Daily Telegraph * 'The more Patmore writes, the more I like her...Her writing is full of fire and her examples of stress accountrements are wonderfully wry.' - New Statesman" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Angela Patmore is a former University of East Anglia research fellow and International Fulbright Scholar. Her first book, Sportsmen Under Stress (1986), was The Times's sports books of the year. A former Guardian columnist on the psychology of sport, she writes extensively for newspapers and magazines and has contributed to many television and radio programs on stress.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Overlook TP (May 26, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590201817
• ISBN-13: 978-1590201817
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,657,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and full of uncommon sense, March 28, 2006

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I have only read about 100 pages of this substantial book and feel compelled to write and add my endoresment of the ideas presented in this book.

Reducing stress has become a mantra without thought. As it says in the book, stress has become the cause of itself, is the result of itself and is root of all else that ails the western soul. Without knowing what it is, we follow the mantra in a dogmatic fashion. Reduce stress, relax this, aroma that, yoga do, and so on while we live in a most benign of times. At no point in the history of humankind have we as a species have had it so easy.