Alexander Lowen Livres

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 Informally known as ʺ the Lowen Monographs,ʺ this volume is a collection of previously unpublished writings and lectures.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

Exploring the mind-body connection, this work delves into the psychological and physical aspects of human experience. Alexander Lowen examines how emotional and psychological traumas manifest in the body, leading to a disconnection between the two. He offers insights into the implications of this split for mental health and personal well-being, advocating for a holistic approach to healing that integrates both mind and body. The book serves as a foundational text for understanding the interplay between psychological states and physical health.

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 

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.

The Way to Vibrant Health, now in its 3rd printing, represents over 20 years of Bioenergetic body-psychotherapy techniques. These unique exercises are designed to reduce muscular tension and promote well-being, allowing you to feel more joy and vibrancy. Bioenergetics is a way of understanding the human personality in terms of the body and its energetic processes. Bioenergetic Analysis is a form of psychotherapy that combines work with the mind and the body to help people resolve their emotional problems, and realize their potential for vibrant health and pleasure in all aspects of their lives. Bioenergetic Exercises help you experience: • Natural breathing as a total body respiratory wave. • Unblocking of the body's holding patterns that restrict your energetic potential. • Increasing your capacity for pleasure and feeling.

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

'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian period. In so doing she provides new insights into the gender dynamics of Victorian society.

In The Spirituality of the Body, Alexander Lowen provides a unique perspective about the nature of spirituality. Lowen views the body as the outer manifestation of the spirit and defines grace as the divine spirit acting within the body. For the healthy individual the divine spirit is experienced as the natural gracefulness of the body and is reflected in the person's behavior. In a healthy body, movement, feeling, and thinking are integrated in grace and harmony. This book includes body-psychotherapy techniques and exercises aimed at alleviating muscular tension and restoring the body's natural grace. This spiritual grace involves a sense of connectedness to a higher order. In this state of grace we feel a kinship with all living creatures, and recognize our connection to our environment and to the world.