1. Edmund Jacobson was an American physician in internal medicine and psychiatry and a physiologist.
11 Facts About Edmund Jacobson
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Edmund Jacobson was the creator of Progressive Muscle Relaxation and of Biofeedback.
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Edmund Jacobson was born on April 22,1888, Chicago to Fannie and Morris Jacobson.
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Edmund Jacobson's father was a realtor in Chicago, who was born in Strasbourg, and his wife Fannie was born in Iowa.
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Edmund Jacobson took a postgraduate course at Cornell University in 1911.
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Edmund Jacobson returned to Chicago as an assistant in physiology.
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Edmund Jacobson was able to prove the connection between excessive muscular tension and different disorders of body and psyche.
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Edmund Jacobson found out that tension and exertion was always accompanied by a shortening of the muscular fibres, that the reduction of the muscular tonus decreased the activity of the central nervous system, that relaxation was the contrary of states of excitement and well suited for a general remedy and prophylaxis against psychosomatic disorders.
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In 1929, after twenty years of research, Edmund Jacobson began to publish his results in the book Progressive Relaxation.
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Edmund Jacobson deepened his investigations from 1936 through 1960 at the Laboratory for Clinical Physiology in Chicago which he directed, and he continued his investigations of simultaneous chemical and electronic recordings in man in health until the 1970s.
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Edmund Jacobson died on January 7,1983, at Northwestern University Hospital in Chicago.