
Joy
The Surrender to the Body and to Life
Alexander Lowen(Author)
Arkana (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-14-019493-7 (ISBN)
Description
Dr. Alexander Lowen believes that the key to personal change is 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. The book reviews the essentials of bioenergetic therapy in the light of other therapeutic approaches, and teaches how to surrender to joy by using bioenergetic principles. It discusses aggression, disappointment, sexual abuse, the fear of dying and issues of spirituality as it attemps to make joy a more common experience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-019493-7 (9780140194937)
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12/1995
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Person
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.
Content
JoyPreface
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
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