{"product_id":"bioenergetics-isbn-9780140194715","title":"Bioenergetics","description":"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.\u003cp\u003e\"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.  \u003cb\u003eBioenergetics \u003c\/b\u003eis destined to become widely influential.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Ashley Montagu\u003c\/p\u003eBioenergetics\u003cb\u003eI. From Reich to Bioenergetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Reichian Therapy, 1940-1945\u003cbr\u003e  Work as a Reichian Therapist, 1945-1953\u003cbr\u003e  The Development of Bioenergetics\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. The Energy Concept \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Charge, Discharge, Flow and Movement\u003cbr\u003e  You Are Your Body\u003cbr\u003e  Mind, Spirit, and Soul\u003cbr\u003e  The Life of the Body: The Bioenergetic Exercise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. The Language of the Body \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The Heart of Life: The Heart of the Matter\u003cbr\u003e  Interacting with Life\u003cbr\u003e  Body Signs and Expressions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Bioenergetic Therapy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A Voyage in Self-Discovery\u003cbr\u003e  The Core of Therapy\u003cbr\u003e  Anxiety\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. Pleasure: A Primary Orientation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The Pleasure Principle\u003cbr\u003e  The Ego and the Body\u003cbr\u003e  A Characterology\u003cbr\u003e  The Hierarchy of Character Types and a Bill of Rights\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI. Reality: A Secondary Orientation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Reality and Illusion\u003cbr\u003e  Hang-Ups\u003cbr\u003e  Grounding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII. Falling Anxiety \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The Fear of Height\u003cbr\u003e  An Exercise in Falling\u003cbr\u003e  The Causes of Falling Anxiety\u003cbr\u003e  Falling in Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIII. Stress and Sex \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Gravity: A General View of Stress\u003cbr\u003e  Lower-Back Pain\u003cbr\u003e  The Sexual Release\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIX. Self-Expression and Survival \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Self-Expression and Spontaneity\u003cbr\u003e  Sound and Personality\u003cbr\u003e  The Eyes Are the Mirrors of the Soul\u003cbr\u003e  Headaches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX. Consciousness: Unity and Duality \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Expanding Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e  Words and the Heightening of Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e  Principles and Character\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Alexander Lowen\u003c\/b\u003e 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.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304297582821,"sku":"NP9780140194715","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140194715.jpg?v=1767722631","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/bioenergetics-isbn-9780140194715","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}