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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Alexander Lowen is the creator of bioenergetics, which he has defined as "a therapeutic technique to help a person get back together with his body and to help him enjoy to the fullest degree possible the life of the body." Incorporating direct work on the body into the psychoanalytic process, Dr. Lowen practices psychiatry in New York and Connecticut and is the executive director of the Institute of Bioenergetic Analysis. He is married and lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his wife and son. Klappentext Surrender to your body and recover joy Alexander Lowen, famous student of Wilhelm Reich and founder of Bioenergetics, reveals in this book how to reclaim a natural, childlike state of joy through exercises that revive the body's vitality and liberate the energy of suppressed feelings. Using examples from four decades of clinical practice, Lowen shows how painful emotional experiences-from sexual abuse and fear of dying to the anger and heartbreak all human beings experience in life-are manifested in bodily symptoms. He then instructs readers how to listen for and answer the unique signals in the body that serve as internal cries for freedom. The vibrant health that results has a wide range of holistic benefits for the total being, including enhanced sexual pleasure and heightened spirituality. Joy, the culmination of Lowen's life work, is a wonderfully hopeful and transformational guide from one of the pioneers of body/mind therapy. Zusammenfassung Dr. Alexander Lowen believes that the key to personal change is through contact with the body. This book rests on the idea that joy is a natural state, a positive feeling of the body, possible only through surrender to the body by listening to its wisdom and what it communicates. Inhaltsverzeichnis Joy Preface 1. Joy The Freedom from Guilt Feeling the Life of the Body 2. The Surrender to the Body The Surrender of the Narcissistic Ego Grounding and Reality 3. Crying: The Releasing Emotion 4. The Resistance to Crying I Won't Break Down The Surrender of the Will: Despair 5. Anger: The Healing Emotion 6. Love: The Fulfilling Emotion The Surrender to Love Mature Love 7. The Betrayal of Love 8. Sexual Abuse 9. Fear: The Paralyzing Emotion 10. The Fear of Death 11. Passion, Sex, and Joy 12. Passion and the Spirit The Surrender to God The Dancing Spirit ...
