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The Voice
of the Body
(2005)
The Voice of the Body is a complete collection
of Dr. Lowen's public lectures. In these lectures Lowen
explores ten new topics from a bioenergetic point of
view. The lectures fill in the missing pieces of bioenergetic
analysis not filled by Lowen's other books, and is a
useful tool for people interested in the unity of the
mind and the body. |
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Honoring
the Body
(2004)
Honoring the Body is Dr. Alexander Lowen's
recent autobiography. It reveals his personal journey
through life, and how bioenergetic analysis developed
on Lowen's quest to heal his own mind body split. If
you've ever wondered how Al come to his insights, this
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Joy
(1995)
Alexander Lowen dedicated Joy: The Surrender to
the Body and to Life to the miracle of the creation
of new life. In Joy, Dr. Lowen uses case studies from
his therapy to explore barriers to freedom, and ways
to overcome them through bioenergetic therapy and
exercises. He looks at how the restrictions imposed
on people in childhood, often as a result of social
values, can limit freedom and the joy that it brings.
Lowen says "without freedom, there is no joy;
and without joy, there is no meaning to life."
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The Spirituality
of the Body
(1990)
Spirituality of the Body is Lowen's investigation
of the spiritual side to health. It investigates some
of the disruptions that break someone's spirit, diminish
their body's gracefulness, and undermine their health.
Lowen views grace as the divine spirit acting in the
body and a combination of spirit and matter. A graceful
person is whole, unified with the divine, connected
with life- and becomes a healthy person as well. |
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Love, Sex and Your Heart
(1988)
In Love, Sex, and Your Heart, Dr. Lowen writes
about what keeps people from loving, and what helps them
love. He establishes the basis of love as a deep connection
to the body anchored in the heart. Lowen says that to
love one must have an open heart, and that an open heart
often becomes closed by the chronic tension of the muscles
around the heart. These tensions can limit the level of
connection you feel to life, and lead to loneliness. In
this book, Lowen helps reveal what causes us to be afraid
of love, and how being aware of these things can help
us be more loving and healthier. |
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Narcissism
(1984)
In this book, Lowen describes narcissism
as something other then the self loving personality
type that usually comes to mind when we hear the word.
He views it as a denial of the true self, where a person
has feelings of low self esteem and puts much effort
into appearing as if they have high self esteem and
are on top of the world. Lowen explores different degrees
of narcissism, using his own clinical case studies to
show readers how narcissism develops, including social
and cultural influences, and what it means to be a narcissist.
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Fear of
Life
(1980)
Fear of Life is Alexander Lowen’s therapeutic
book about how to face and overcome the fear of living
and being. He writes that you can see this fear in the
way we keep ourselves busy to avoid feeling, how we
keep running to avoid facing ourselves, or numb our
minds to avoid feeling. Being afraid of life, we try
to control it and limit it in many ways. In Fear
of Life, Lowen teaches ways to face and overcome
this fear. |
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Depression
and the Body
(1977)
Lowen describes the origins, symptoms, and treatment
of depression from a bioenergetic perspective in Depression
and the Body. The physical symptoms of depression
can be successfully treated with simple bioenergetic
exercises that Dr. Lowen describes in this book. Lowen
shows that by improving the connection between body
and mind, physical changes can have a positive effect
on psychological symptoms as well. |
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The Way
to Vibrant Health: A Manual of Bioenergetic Exercises
(co-authored by his wife Leslie Lowen in 1977)
Alexander Lowen wrote this book with his wife Leslie.
Together they illustrate and instruct us how to do bioenergetic
exercises to make our bodies more alive. It is not a
workout program; it is a manual to help us feel more
in our bodies and minds. This book is a way to bring
bioenergetics into the home of any interested reader.
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Bioenergetics
(1976)
In Bioenergetics, Dr. Lowen explores the effects
that the human body has on personality. He shows how
the energy processes in the body control not only what
happens in the body but what happens in the mind as
well. Lowen describes how to feel, accept, and release
the tightened muscles that block the free flow of energy
necessary for health. |
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Pleasure
(1970)
Dr. Lowen wrote this book based on the definition of
pleasure as the creative force in life. In Pleasure,
Lowen shows how experiencing pleasure or pain can determine
our emotions, thinking, and behavior. He discusses the
psychological and biological sides of pleasure, as well
as its roots in the body and nature. The book includes
bioenergetic exercises that help the body release pleasure
and creativity. |
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The Betrayal of the Body
(1967)
The title Betrayal of the Body refers to how
the body’s needs and feelings are consciously
denied and betrayed. Lowen addresses the split between
the mind and the body, and explains the origins of this
split and how the division between mind and body effects
personality. Lowen also writes about how to confront
and repair this split within you. |
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Love and
Orgasm
(1965)
Written in the 1960s, at the beginning of the sexual
revolution, Love and Orgasm is Lowen’s
explanation of the link between the two. He provides
an understanding of sexuality as an expression of emotion.
In practice, Lowen observed that a person’s sexual
and emotional problems reflect the same disturbance
in their personality and explores these interrelationships
in Love and Orgasm. |
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The Language
of the Body
(1958)
Behavior is a physical process, and in Language
of the Body, Dr. Lowen shows how the behavior of
different character types can be seen in body language.
He classifies behavior patterns into different character
types to help understand and identify them. Using character
types based on human development, Lowen describes the
typical body language of each. |
