Items from the list of books recommended by Dr Feldenkrais for SF training, 1975
Hans SELYE (1907-1982)
The Stress of Life, New York , Toronto, London, McGraw-Hill book C°, cop.
1956
An Austrian-born Canadian research physician and chemist, in 1931 he moved to the USA, then
Canada, to pursue his research. In 1945, he founded the Institute of Medicine and Experimental
Surgery in Montreal, where he worked until 1977. He is best known for his work in endocrinology
and stress, a term he introduced into the medical repertoire. He was interested in the body’s
capacity to adapt to the “pathophysiological consequences of natural or surgical trauma”. He
defined stress as: “all the physiological and psychological means used by a person to adapt to a
given event”. His theory is known as the “general adaptation syndrome”. This is part of
Feldenkrais’s definition of health.
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