Stress|Keith Sedlacek,Matthew J. Culligan 9026497083

||boek: Stress|Voorkomen en genezen|Helmond|Orion

||door: Keith Sedlacek, Matthew J. Culligan

||taal: nl
||jaar: 1979
||druk: ?
||pag.: 167p
||opm.: softcover|zo goed als nieuw|notities

||isbn: 90-264-9708-3
||code: 2:000084

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Dit boek wil leren de stress de baas te blijven in het dagelijkse leven en legt daarbij vooral de nadruk op 'biofeedback' als methode. Deze methode heeft in klinische tests bewezen effectiever te zijn dan TM en andere technieken, zowel van medisch als van persoonlijk standpunt bezien. Het boek vertelt wat 'biofeedback' inhoudt en hoe het werkt; de zes kwalen die het meest door biofeedback-training worden beïnvloed, biofeedback bij bevalling, slapeloosheid, chronische benauwdheden, enz. Gevallen worden beschreven waarin patiënten door deze methode zijn geholpen. Een praktische hulp voor het bereiken van grotere vrede en meer levensgeluk.

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Reveals how to identify sources of stress, how to use biofeedback to control stress, and how to avoid stress by establishing a proper diet, exercise routine, and attitude towards life.

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The first definitive work on stress management in everyday life, with special emphasis on applying biofeedback in stress reduction.

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Dr. Keith Sedlacek, MD is a health care provider primarily located in New York, NY. They have 51 years of experience.

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A psychiatrist like Keith Sedlacek Md Pc are primary mental health physicians diagnose and treat mental illnesses through psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, hospitalization and medication. Psychiatrist help patients find solutions through changes in their behavioral patterns, explorations of experiences, group and family therapy...

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by Keith M.D. Sedlacek (Author)

Shows how biofeedback can reduce stress and help alleviate headaches, high blood pressure, colitis, muscle disorders, and anxiety.

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HEALTHTALK: The Buzz on Ears [1984-03-23]

Why is it that buzzing in the ears ceases if one makes a sound? Is it because the greater sound drives out the less? --attributed to Hippocrates, circa 400 B.C.

To some it is a clanging bell. To others, the endless buzzz of a mosquito. Some hear a high-pitched shriek, a squeak, a squeal, a whistle, clicks, pops, low-pitched roars ... Onset may be gradual or sudden. It may come and go. It may, however, come and stay--forever.

Mostly, no one can hear it but the victim. It is called tinnitus, sometimes pronounced TINNituss and sometimes tinEYEtus, but however it is pronounced the American Tinnitus Association calls it "the third worst thing that can happen to mankind." (The first two are severe, unrelievable pain and severe, unrelievable dizziness.)

Because it was a syndrome as neglected by research as it was dreaded by clinical practitioners, specialists had very little concept of its scope. Nor are they certain today. The ATA cites a figure of 36 million U.S. sufferers, about 7 million with its most severe form. But more recent research puts the worst-case figure at between 2 million and 3 million.

Tinnitus can be caused by virtually everything that affects the ear - from impacted ear wax to tumors of the eighth (auditory) nerve. It is often a characteristic, along with vertigo and hearing loss, of Me'nie re's syndrome - a disorder marked by loss of equilibrium.

Commonly, however, in the tinnitus victim, there may have been a blow to the head. Perhaps the largest single cause is exposure to loud noise, either over a long period of time or just once, to something like an explosion, the bell of a telephone ringing when held to the ear, a firecracker, a gunshot.

It can be induced by drugs. An aspirin overdose, for example, is often heralded by a ringing in the ears. Some estimates suggest that 75 percent of hearing-impaired people also have tinnitus.

Sometimes, however, there is no apparent cause; the actual mechanism for the tinnitus may still be a mystery even when the initiating trauma can be identified.

Even now, although the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS) is underwriting a variety of tinnitus research projects all over the country, there is no single identifiable cause, cure or treatment for all tinnitus. But there are approaches that seem to help some victims, and enough different approaches to provide some relief for most victims.

Even such radical surgical approaches as severing the auditory nerve may not end the noise, which may originate in the delicate hairs of nerves in the cochlea (part of the inner ear), in the auditory nerve or in the brain. The noise may be subjective, but it is not imaginary.

Active, federally financed research got a boost a few years ago when one article in Parade magazine drew some 20,000 replies, many from people who thought the noises they heard "inside their heads" were signs of incipient insanity.

That is not surprising. Take the case of former CIA agent Howard "Rocky" Stone of Potomac, Md. When, as a teen-age Army recruit, his hearing was essentially destroyed by a cannon blast some 40 years ago, he was left with a ringing in his ears he never even knew had a name. Indeed, it was 34 years before he knew that hard-of-hearing does not necessarily mean tinnitus. After his retirement a few years ago, Stone turned his full attention toward problems of the hard of hearing. His organization, Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. (SHHH) now has about 7,500 members and chapters in all 50 states.

Despite the continued mystery surrounding the actual mechanism of tinnitus, there have been some major research advances in maskers and biofeedback:

Maskers: Some tinnitus victims have reported for years that they would sometimes receive at least temporary relief when they turned the dials of FM radios (higher the fidelity, the better) to a point between stations. The static, a so-called "white" noise, appeared to relieve the internal sounds, possibly by masking or blocking them out through a kind of counter-irritant effect or through another unidentified mechanism.

Research, principally at the Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory in Portland, Ore., has resulted in the development of several different kinds of masking devices, sometimes combined with hearing aids, that have helped many tinnitus patients, at least for a while. There is some controversy over some newer devices because of fears that in the long run they might actually exacerbate the problem.

However, as Dr. Dennis McFadden of the University of Texas department of psychology writes in a special report of the National Research Council:

"For many people, tinnitus is a severe debilitating affliction, and it could easily be argued that relief from this affliction is, in many cases, worth the risk, or even the inevitability, of some hearing loss. Many commonly used drugs carry risks (or inevitabilities) of negative effects . . ."

Biofeedback: Initially seen principally as a means of countering the physiological fallout of stress--through teaching skills to consciously control normally autonomic functions--biofeedback now goes far beyond simple relaxation. Its use in helping victims control tinnitus, for example, is different from its use in controlling migraine headaches. (Tinnitus brings its own stress, largely because the victim feels he has no control and fears he will lose his hearing entirely.)

"Although it is still not altogether clear how it works, biofeedback seems to be quite helpful for 50 to 60 percent of tinnitus victims," says Dr. Keith Sedlacek, a behavioral psychiatrist, chief of biofeedback at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, and director of the Stress Regulation Institute. He has been treating chronic tinnitus patients with biofeedback for several years.

"Even though we don't understand the exact mechanism," says Sedlacek, "biofeedback can impart skills that can dampen down the nervous system and make things less painful."

Sedlacek finds that, depending on the age of the victim and the length of time the problem has existed, about 12 to 15 or 20 biofeedback sessions plus home-practice sessions can produce demonstrable improvement, or at least enough control to reassure the victim.

Lillian Rosenbaum, director of biofeedback training at Georgetown University's Family Center, says that the technique for tinnitus involves using the onset of the tone as a cue for its control.

"Instead of being more bothered or more anxious about how much worse it is going to get, the person learns to actually use the ringing in a welcoming way to trigger the use of previously learned skills designed to lessen it."

There is also research involving drugs, certain vitamins, and numerous other approaches, none of which has as yet provided any major breakthroughs.

But one testament to research is the awareness by victims and researchers alike that loudness is not necessarily related to annoyance. Tinnitus sounds, when compared by the victim to external noises, turn out to be relatively soft. This is sometimes a surprise, even to the sufferer.

Some researchers now suggest that because the internally perceived sound is not behaving the way it should in the central nervous system, the body is somehow communicating that something is wrong. This subconscious neuron-to-neuron communique' is consciously perceived by the sufferer as annoyance.

Sometimes, suggest researchers, just being aware of this can help the sufferer suffer less.

Meanwhile, tinnitus is exacerbated (according to a publication of the American Tinnitus Association) by excessive use of alcohol, smoking, caffeine, marijuana and loud sounds. Tinnitus patients are encouraged to wear ear protection--ear plugs or ear muffs or both--when using chain saws or shooting guns. In any case, says the ATA, avoid loud sounds at all costs. CAPTION: Illustration, Diagram of the ear. From "The Human Body" by Jonathan Miller, Copyright (c) 1983, Dark Horse Productions Ltd.; reprinted with permission of Viking Penguin Inc.

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Matthew Culligan Dead at 83; Ex-Curtis Publishing President [2002-02-23]

Matthew J. Culligan, an executive who held high positions in the radio, television, advertising and publishing businesses, including a stint as president of the Curtis Publishing Company, owners of The Saturday Evening Post, died Jan. 31 in New hall, Calif., his companion, Judith Valentine, said. He was 83 and lived in Manhattan.

The cause of death was complications from a stroke, Ms. Valentine said.

Widely known as Joe, Mr. Culligan made his name as a media supersalesman who went through life with a black patch, the result of losing an eye to a grenade during the Battle of the Bulge.

Selling came easily to Mr. Culligan, who worked at Hearst Magazines, Ziff-Davis Publications and the National Broadcasting Company before becoming president of Curtis in July 1962.

In one of the 11 books he wrote during his lifetime, Mr. Culligan said he had an "innate Irish facility for conversation."

Curtis Publishing was in bad shape when Mr. Culligan took over the company at the age of 44.

Circulation at The Saturday Evening Post was at a record high, but advertising pages at the magazine and many other Curtis publications were down sharply and operating losses were high.

Mr. Culligan pushed hard to increase advertising and cut costs. To accomplish the first goal, he went on a series of tours, calling on executives at the country's 200 leading corporations.

He took one trip to the White House, where he persuaded President John F. Kennedy to provide a few "amusing anecdotes" that he might use as a gimmick in his advertising pitches.

By the end of 1963, Mr. Culligan reported that Curtis had been profitable for six straight months.

But lawsuits by the legendary college football coaches Paul (Bear) Bryant of Alabama and Wally Butts of Georgia cut into Curtis's profits and impugned the integrity of The Post, which in 1963 was engaging in what its editor called "sophisticated muckraking."

Advertisers lost faith, and a series of internal feuds began. Mr. Culligan resigned in 1964.

Mr. Culligan relived the entire story in "The Curtis-Culligan Story," which was published in 1970.

Mr. Culligan said he wrote the book on a recommendation from his doctor.

After he left Curtis, Mr. Culligan held a variety of positions, including service as an official with the United States Information Agency and as president of the Mutual Broadcasting Company.

A native New Yorker, Matthew Joseph Culligan was born June 25, 1918, and spent his boyhood in Washington Heights. After graduating from All Hallows Institute, he held a number of jobs, including lecturing at an exhibit at the 1939-40 World's Fair.

During World War II he became a company commander in Europe. The exploding grenade during the Battle of the Bulge took him out of action.

Mr. Culligan got into the magazine business after the war through a chance meeting with an acquaintance in a restaurant, who suggested Mr. Culligan call a friend at Good Housekeeping, a Hearst Publication. He was hired as an advertising salesman.

He is survived by a son, Kerry Culligan of Pensacola, Fla.; three daughters, Susan Culligan of Richmondville, N.Y.; Carolyn Culligan of Newhall, Calif.; and Eileen Carney of Malibu, Calif.; and two grandchildren.

Kenneth N. Gilpin [source: https--www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/business/matthew-culligan-dead-at-83-ex-curtis-publishing-president.html]

Culligan, Matthew J. 1918-

Works: 30 works in 93 publications in 6 languages and 3,489 library holdings
Genres: Biographies; History; Biographical television programs; Genealogy; Family histories; Documentary films; Biographical films; Documentary television programs; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Portraits
Roles: Author, Composer

Most widely held works about Matthew J Culligan

• The quest for the Galloping Hogan by Matthew J Culligan

Most widely held works by Matthew J Culligan

• Back-to-basics management: the lost craft of leadership by Matthew J Culligan
• How to avoid stress before it kills you by Matthew J Culligan
• The first definitive work on stress management in everyday life, with special emphasis on applying biofeedback in stress reduction
• Getting back to the basics of public relations & publicity by Matthew J Culligan
• Back to basics planning by Mary Jean Parson
• The planning philosophy; the planning process; The strategic plan, The marketing plan; The organization plan; Quantifying; The planning autlines; The back-to-basics planner
• The Curtis-Culligan story; from Cyrus to Horace, to Joe by Matthew J Culligan
• Getting back to the basics of selling by Matthew J Culligan
• Back to basics management: the lost craft of leadership by Matthew J Culligan - Explains the difference between business administration and business management, how this distinction has been obscured and the need to revive the craft of leadership in management
• The wandering Irish in Europe: their influence from the Dark Ages to modern times by Matthew J Culligan - This study fills in the picture of the significant Irish contribution to European civilisation and history. From the early monks to later political leaders, it provides a perspective of the impact of a migrating culture
• Norman Rockwell: an American portrait - Commentators from various fields offer reflections on painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell
• Management 101 by Matthew J Culligan

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