Psychology of stress. 3rd edition. Sapolski R.

One of the most authoritative and famous books in the world on psychology and physiology of stress. Its author is a world -famous specialist, an outstanding biologist and psychologist Robert Sapolsky is convinced that the human ability to prepare for the future and worry about him is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is in preventive and preparatory behavior, and the curse is that our tendency to worry about the future causes constant stress. It turns out that evolutionarily people are predisposed to react and avoid the threat, as the zebras do. We must relax most of the day and run as crazy only when the danger approaches. Zebra from time to time arises an acute stress reaction (physical threats). On the contrary, we have a chronic stressful reaction (psychological threats) rarely reach such quantities as Zebra, but does not disappear anywhere. The zebras die quickly, falling into the clutches of predators. People die more slowly: from coronary heart disease, cancer and other diseases that occur due to chronic stressful reactions. But when the stress is predictable, and you can control your reaction to it, it does not affect the development of diseases so much.

these and many other issues regarding stress and management are affected in a wonderful book by Professor Sapolski, Which is addressed to specialists of psychological, pedagogical, biological and medical profiles, as well as teachers and students of relevant university faculties.