📚 Relaxation

Down-regulation as practice: the muscle-release method, its successors, and the rest-cure history behind it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject relaxation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	You must relax	Edmund Jacobson	1934	12
	The relaxation response	Herbert Benson	1975	11
	The book of stress survival	Alix Kirsta	1986	10
	Sense relaxation below your mind	Bernard Gunther	1968	9
	Helping yourself with foot reflexology	Mildred Carter	1969	9
	Anxiety, phobias, and panic	Reneau Z. Peurifoy	1988	9
	How to calm down	Fred L. Miller	2003	9
	Stress and relaxation	Jane Madders	1979	8
	Dr. Dean Ornish's program for reversing heart disease	Dean Ornish	1990	7
	Overcoming anxiety	Helen Kennerley	1997	7
	The relaxation & stress reduction workbook	Davis, Martha	1983	6
	The book of floating	Michael Hutchison	1984	6
	How Proust can change your life	Alain De Botton	1997	6
	The mindbody prescription	John E. Sarno	1998	6
	Massage	Karen Smith	1998	6
	How to Be Idle	Tom Hodgkinson	2005	6
	1001 Ways to Relax	DK Publishing	2008	6
	Progressive relaxation	Edmund Jacobson	1929	5
	The art of relaxation	Herman S. Schwartz	1954	5
	The potent self	Moshe Feldenkrais	1985	5
	The relaxation and stress reduction workbook	Martha Davis	2003	5
	The technique of rest	Anna C. Brackett	1892	4
	Relax Your Way To Health	M. H. Soglow	1958	4
	The relaxation & stress reduction workbook	Davis, Martha	1980	4
	Calm down	F. J. McGuigan	1981	4
	More help for your nerves	Claire Weekes	1984	4
	Life Was Never Meant To Be A Struggle	Stuart Wilde	1987	4
	Relaxation For Dummies	Shamash Alidina	2011	4
	Relax	Jane Madders	1973	3
	Progressive relaxation training	Douglas A. Bernstein	1973	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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