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
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.
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