A practicing psychiatrist discusses the relationship between the ego and the body, and the importance of bodily pleasure in emotional health

The Betrayal of the Body

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Löwen, Alexander

Exercise & Fitness

Macmillan Pub. Co.

"The Language of the Body" is the psychological masterpiece that showed how and why conventional analysis was failing. And it's the spark that ignited the movement toward body language as the key--and cure--for many psychological problems.

Language of the Body

Self-Help

Creativity

Macmillan General* Reference

Criticizes the American way of life for being overly concerned with doing rather than being, tracing the problem to American child-rearing techniques and showing how the resulting insecurity and unhappiness can be overcome

Fear of Life

Psychology & Counseling

Links the western concept of relation to a Supreme Being, the Eastern tradition connecting spirit and breathing, and the bioenergetic connection of psychic peace and free-flowing physical energy

Spirituality of the Body: Bioenergetics for Grace and Harmony

Offers a revolutionary thesis that connects love and sexuality to heart disease by suggesting that repressed and unresolved sexual conflicts constrict the heart and offers mental and physical exercises to increase resistance to heart disease

Love, Sex, and Your Heart

Mental Health

Based on an understanding of health that emphasizes the unity of body and mind and the importance of energetic processes, exercises are illustrated that release tension and increase joy in living through massage, controlled pressure, and movement

The Way to Vibrant Health: A Manual of Bioenergetic Exercises

Harpercollins

The distinguished psychiatrist discusses the psychology and biology of pleasure and offers a means of achieving mental and physical health through a program of exercises.

Pleasure: A Creative Approach

Penguin??Books

The depressed person, says Dr. Alexander Lowen, is out of touch with reality – and especially with the reality of his or her own body. This inspiring, pioneering book explores the cultural and psychological forces that contribute to this condition and shows how we can overcome depression, first by reestablishing the connection to our physical selves and learning to recognize the physical manifestations of our emotions. Drawing on his vast experience with depressed patients, Dr. Lowen outlines a series of simple but remarkably effective exercises that help us reawaken to our own inherent energies, enable us to express our love and uniqueness, and recover our spirituality and faith in living. “[Dr. Lowen’s] book is both important and, for the serious lay reader, engrossing. He is an unusually lucid writer, unburdened by jargon, candidly personal.” – Publishers Weekly

Depression and the Body: The Biological Basis of Faith and Reality (Compass)

Penguin Publishing Group

Bioenergetics is the revolutionary new therapy that uses the language of the body to heal the problems of the mind. This exciting body-mind approach to personality has a liberating and positive effect on emotional, physical, and psychic distress. Dr. Alexander Lowen, founder and prime mover of this fast-growing therapy, writes that increased joy and pleasure are possible in every day life through an understanding of how your body functions energetically: how it determines what you feel, think, and do. Dr. Lowen points out that lack of energy is the result of chronic muscular tensions, a condition caused by the suppression of feelings. These tensions can be dissolved through the direct body work in bioenergetic exercise, which restores the potential for living a rich, full life. Dr. Lowen analyzes common physical ailments like headaches and lower back pain and shows how they too can be overcome by releasing the muscular tenstion that create them. Generously illustrated with line drawings of bioenergetic exercises, this book is sure to bring freedom, confidence, and pleasure to thousands of men and women.
"In this highly interesting and valuable attempt to restore the body to the mind, Dr. Alexander Lowen sets out in a practically useful way the principles of his new form of psychotherapy. Bioenergetics is destined to become widely influential." —Ashley Montagu

Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind

Alternative Medicine

Penguin/Arkana

Dr. Alexander Lown offers a way out of the dilemma of an unpleasurable life. Defining pleasure as a bodily experience--"there is no such thing as pure mental pleasure"--he offers a series of bioenergetic exercises, each outlines in easy-to-follow detail, which can help the body regain its natural freedom and spontaneity.

Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Life

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