Alexander Lowen was een pionier in bio-energetische analyse, een therapeutische benadering gericht op de integratie van lichaam en geest. Zijn levenswerk was gewijd aan het helen van de splitsing tussen lichaam en geest en het begeleiden van de mensheid naar heelheid. Hij richtte een wereldwijde organisatie op om zijn therapeutische methoden te ondersteunen en te promoten, die wereldwijd nog steeds worden toegepast. Lowens blijvende nalatenschap is zijn diepe overtuiging dat het ervaren van het genot en de vitaliteit van het lichaam het meest betekenisvolle aspect van het menselijk bestaan is.
The Language of the Body, originally published as Physical Dynamics of Character Structure, brilliantly describes how personality is expressed in the form and function of the body. The body is the key to understanding behavior and working with the body is the key to psychological health. The Language of the Body outlines the foundations of character structure: schizoid, oral, masochistic, hysteric, and phallic narcissistic personality types. Dr. Lowen examines the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and body therapy.
Bioenergetic Analysis, created by Alexander Lowen, M.D., one of the worldʼs leading innovators in the field of psychiatry, is a form of psychotherapy that combines work with the mind and the body. Its goal is to help people resolve their emotional problems and realize their potential for love and healthy sexuality as the center of their lives. Informally known as ʺ the Lowen Monographs,ʺ this volume is a collection of previously unpublished writings and lectures. They are considered to contain some of Lowenʼs most important and insightful ideas.
Alexander Lowen, M.D., world famous psychiatrist and creator of Bioenergetic Analysis shows you how to resolve your fears and allow yourself -Surrender to Love -Let go rather than control -Be rather than do -Flow rather than push Bioenergetic Analysis helps -Love in a new way -Discover sexuality as authenticity -Find the courage to truly be -Harmonize the mind and the body -Use Bioenergetic exercises to heal emotional conflicts
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
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
A groundbreaking, “thoughtful and provocative” ( Los Angeles Times ) study of narcissism that will relieve hidden anxieties and heal the tension between mind, body, and feelings.Are you a narcissist? Do you interact with someone who is? Contrary to popular belief, narcissists do not love themselves or anyone else. They cannot accept their true selves, constructing instead fixed masks that hide emotional numbness.Influenced by forces in culture and predisposed by factors in the human personality, narcissists tend to • More concerned with how they appear than what they feel• Seductive and manipulative, striving for power and control• Egotists, focused on their own interests but lacking the true values of the self -- self-expression, self-possession, dignity, and integrity• Without a solid sense of self, which leads them to experience life as empty and meaninglessIn this groundbreaking study, Dr. Alexander Lowen uses his extensive clinical experience to demonstrate how narcissists can recover their suppressed feelings and regain their lost humanity. By the use of Bioenergetic Analysis, the psychotherapy created by Dr. Lowen, a new possibility of a fulfilling and authentic life is presented for people with narcissistic characteristics and for those who interact with them.
The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander's study reveals the untold story of how free and enslaved Black people in the United States defended the young Caribbean nation from forces intent on maintaining slavery and white supremacy. Concentrating on Haiti's place in the history of Black internationalism, Alexander illuminates the ways Haitian independence influenced Black thought and action in the United States. As she shows, Haiti embodied what whites feared most: Black revolution and Black victory. Thus inspired, Black activists in the United States embraced a common identity with Haiti's people, forging the idea of a united struggle that merged the destinies of Haiti with their own striving for freedom. A bold exploration of Black internationalism's origins, Fear of a Black Republic links the Haitian revolution to the global Black pursuit of liberation, justice, and social equality.
Bioenergetika představuje způsob, jak chápat lidskou osobnost z hlediska jejího těla a energetických procesů. Jde též o způsob terapie, která kombinuje práci s tělem a myslí, aby lidem pomohla řešit jejich emoční problémy a realizovat vlastní potenciál. Po krátkém, přehledném úvodu autor knihy a zároveň zakladatel bioenergetiky předkládá přes 100 cvičení zaměřených na různé fáze cvičení, polohy i tělesné oblasti. Připojuje rovněž expresivní a sexuální cviky i masážní techniky. Radí, jak cvičit doma či ve skupině. Bioenergetické cviky mají snížit napětí svalů, navodit přirozené dýchání, odstranit energetické bloky a zvýšit schopnost zakoušet příjemné pocity. Kniha je zaměřena na odborníky v oblasti tělové psychoterapie i na zájemce o bioenergetická cvičení, pro něž jsou všechny cviky podrobně popsány, ilustrovány a obsahují otázky pro zpětnou vazbu.
