Stress and its Management by SRIDHAR RAO

Generally books on stress cover one or two of its aspects. They are an overstatement of the author’s point of view with understatement or omission of other points of view. For instance, if the author is meditation practitioner, he tends to overemphasize the role of meditation in stress control to the exclusion of other control strategies. The situation is not dissimilar to the fable of 5 blind men and the elephant: each describes the animal in terms of the part he has his hands on. The present book on stress is an attempt to give unabridged importance to all aspects–anatomical, physiological, psychological, sociological, pathological, clinical, epidemiological, preventive, promotive, to name a few– of stress. The book paints, so to say, the elephant’s portrait in full glory.