Table of Contents

From Reich to bioenergetics; the energy concept; the language of the body; bioenergetic therapy; pleasure - a primary orientation; reality - a secondary orientation; falling anxiety; stress and sex; self-expression and survival; consciousness - unity and duality.

About the Author

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.