Edmund Jacobson
Edmund Jacobson (born April 22, 1888 in Chicago ; † January 7, 1983 there ) was an American doctor. He founded progressive muscle relaxation .
Life
Edmund Jacobson was the son of Morris Jacobson, a Strasbourg- born real estate agent, and his Iowa-born wife, Fannie.
Jacobson began his research in 1908 at Harvard University . Through extensive studies, he was able to demonstrate the connection between excessive muscular tension and various physical and mental illnesses. He found that tension and exertion always go hand in hand with a shortening of muscle fibers, and he recognized relaxation as the exact opposite of states of excitement. Jacobson found that reducing muscle tone decreases the activity of the central nervous system, and relaxation is useful as a general remedy for psychosomatic disorders and for prophylaxis .
After twenty years of research, he published his results for the first time in 1929, initially as specialist literature for doctors. His main work You must relax was addressed to a general audience and appeared in 1934. It was first published in German in 1990 under the title Relaxation as Therapy - Progressive Relaxation in Theory and Practice . Jacobson deepened his research from 1936 to 1960 at the Laboratory for Clinical Physiology in Chicago. In the course of his life he published 64 scientific studies and eight books on relaxation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alfred Pritz: Short group psychotherapy: structure, course and effectiveness of autogenic training, progressive muscle relaxation and analytically sound short group psychotherapy . Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-75493-7 , pp. 47–48 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacobson, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1983 |
| Place of death | Chicago |