Overview
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Robert Fried
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Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, USA
Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy, New York, USA
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Joseph Grimaldi
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University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, USA
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiv
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- Robert Fried, Joseph Grimaldi
Pages 1-20
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- Robert Fried, Joseph Grimaldi
Pages 21-56
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- Robert Fried, Joseph Grimaldi
Pages 57-86
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- Robert Fried, Joseph Grimaldi
Pages 87-108
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Pages 173-192
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Pages 193-230
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Pages 231-243
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Pages 245-300
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Pages 301-306
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Back Matter
Pages 307-374
About this book
This is Robert Fried's third book on the crucial role of breathing and hyperventilation in our emotional and physical health. The first, The Hyperventilation Syndrome (1987), was a scholarly monograph, and the second, The Breath Connection (1990a), was a popular version for the lay reader. This book combines the best features of both and extends Dr. Fried's seminal work to protocols for clinical psychophysiology and psy chiatry. Hoping to avoid misunderstanding, he has taken systematic care to introduce relevant electrical, physiological, and psychological concepts in operational language for the widest possible professional audience. Any clinician not thoroughly experienced in respiratory psycho physiology and biofeedback will leave these pages with profound new insight and direction into an aspect of our liveswhich we innocently take for granted as "common sense"-the role of breathing in health and illness. Einstein viewed such common sense as "that set of prejudices we acquired prior to the age of eighteen." I am impressed that Dr. Fried mirrors Einstein's uncanny genius in not accepting the obvious breathing is not "common sense" but, rather, is a pivotal psycho physiological mechanism underlying all aspects of life.
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`[The author] has taken systematic care to introduce relevant electrical, physiologic, and psychological concepts in operational language for the widest possible professional audience....Any clinician not thoroughly experienced in respiratory psychophysiology will leave these pages with profound new insight and direction.'
From the foreword by Charles F. Stroebel, Institute for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Medicine, Connecticut
Authors and Affiliations
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Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, USA
Robert Fried
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Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy, New York, USA
Robert Fried
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University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, USA
Joseph Grimaldi