Type a Behavr&yr Heart

by Meyer Friedman and Ray H. Rosenman

Book Overview

Do you have a habit of (a) explosively accentuating key words in your ordinary speech . . . and (b) finishing your sentences in a burst of speed? Do you always move, walk, eat rapidly? Do you get unduly irritated at delay -- when the car in front of you seems to slow you up, when you have to wait in line, or wait to be seated in a restaurant? Do you often try to do two things at once? Do you almost always feel vaguely guilty when you relax and do...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394480112
• ISBN13: 9780394480114
• Release Date: March 1974
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

from the back cover

From the Type A Behavior Test: Do you have a habit of explosively accentuating key words in your ordinary speech and finishing your sentences in a burst of speed? Do you always move, walk, eat rapidly? Do you feel impatience with the rate at which most events take place? Do you find it difficult to restrain yourself from hurrying the speech of others? Do you get unduly irritated at delay? Does it bother you to watch someone else perform a task you know you can do faster? Do you often try to do two things at once? Do you always feel vaguely guilty when you relax and do absolutely nothing for several days or several hours? If your answer to any of these questions is "YES" you may be falling into the dangerous type A pattern. You need to read this book, take the complete test and change your behvior to prolong your life.

This book should earn Meyer Friedman an Nobel prize.

This book gives tremendous insight into the psycological causes and cures of excess stress in one's life. The depth of knowledge revealed requires multiple readings (would you believe studying) to fully absorb. Even after taking the one year long type A behavior reduction course given by the Meyer Friedman Institute I find previously un absorbed relevant information in this book during my on going re-readings. Meyer Friedman through this book has definitely helped me gain some control of my respopnse to stressful situations. Previous to my exposure to this book I did not know that I had elements of type A behavior. Now I understand how much type A behavior has affected my life, even though most people think that I am a very easy going person. The book explains how and why type A behavoir is self masking ( I have given copies of this book to two type A people I know and they both have not read it) and is so much broader in scope than the stereo typical image most people have of it. The cure and treatment section of the book is much more extensive and to the heart of the problem than the typical self help stress books that don't go much further than giving you a check list and telling you to "don't worry, be happy". The mental exercizes and drills detailed do redirect one's perspective which is listed as the real cause of type A response and the resulting stress induced in every body involved. My only aggravation with the type A behavior modification routine given in the book is that it takes too long.