Stress Without Distress Author:Hans Selye Stress is not something to be avoided. The only way to avoid stress would be to do nothing at all. Virtually all human activity involves stress-from a game of backgammon to a passionate embrace. But this can be defined as the stress of pleasure, challenge, fulfillment. Excessive or unvaried stress, particularly frustration, becomes distress.... more » In this marvelously wise and helpful book, Dr. Hans Selye, the world's leading authority on stress, gives us his prescription for minimizing the psychic insults to the nervous system, mobilizing stress for creative and idealistic purposes, and enjoying a full life in harmony with the laws of Nature.« less