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Edmund Jacobson’s discovery about half-a-century ago that progressive relaxation produces a state of emotional calmness was one of the most important developments in the history of psychiatry. Anxiety and its consequences are the commonest source of suffering and disability in the whole field of mental health. Since we can directly control our muscles, but not our autonomic nervous systems, the ability to use our muscles to bring about autonomic effects of a desirable kind is a remarkable therapeutic resource.
Presidential Address of the International Stress and Tension Control Society, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, August 1983
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Wolpe, J. (1984). Tension Control for Coping and for Habit Change. In: McGuigan, F.J., Sime, W.E., Wallace, J.M. (eds) Stress and Tension Control 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2803-2_2
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