The Betrayal of the Body
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The Betrayal of the Body is Alexander Lowen’s pioneering study of the mind-body split.
Lowen describes the way people deny the reality, needs, and feelings of their bodies. This denial leads to the development of the division between mind and body, creating an over-charged ego obsessed with thinking at the expense of feeling and being. This book illustrates the energetic factors behind the split, the factors that produce it, and the proven therapeutic techniques that are available to treat it. Lowen further explores the mind-body duality in the individual and its parallel duality and dysfunction in society between culture and nature, and between thinking and feeling.
Uitgever : Alexander Lowen Foundation
Publicatiedatum : 1 juli 2012
Taal : Engels
Printlengte : 298 pagina’s
ISBN-10 : 1938485009
ISBN-13 : 978-1938485008
Gewicht van item : 318 g
Afmetingen : 12.7 x 1.78 x 20.32 cm
jim –
There are far better books on the subject out there. Look into P.R.I. (Post Reality Integration), it has helped me more than this book has. This book was far too Freudian for me.
Amazon Customer –
Dr Lowen gives a penetrating insight into the issue of negating the feeling of the body in preference to the intellect! He gives a clear account of how this can happen, and the ramifications that this entails.A must read book, 5 stars.
Shivaprem –
Muchas personas no formadas en psicoterapia creen que Jon Kabat-Zinn fue el introductor del trabajo sobre la conciencia del aquí y ahora. Es el momento de recuperar la obra de aquellos autores que introdujeron las nociones de contacto, enraizamiento y plenitud, sin las cortapisas y restricciones que la moralidad budista ha infiltrado en el movimiento mindfulness.
Cliff E –
I’ve read many of Alexander Lowen’s books, and I had this one saved for when the impulse struck me. The book covers frightening topics: madness, loss of self, and self-destructive behavior. As always, Mr Lowen presents an empathetic, insightful look into this condition.
Passionate Therapist –
This is Lowen’s third and ‘break out’ book, and it is unlike any other book that exists. It goes right to the core of our suffering as individuals and as a society. It takes courage to read this book. Lowen describes ‘the schizoid condition’ This has only a little to do with the emergence of schizophrenia in some extreme cases. Rather the schizoid condition is simply the dissociation in our lives between the image and the reality. Reality is perceived, but not really preferred.Life with schizoid traits (and there are many of us that have some) is characterized by the dissociation of the ego from feeling and from the body. Feelings may be expressed according to what one “should feel” in a given situation, but there is no real spontaneity. What the person thinks seems to have little connection to how the person feels or behaves. The link between desire and impulse is completely broken. This leaves a person both short on impulses, but also at a loss to understand his or her own desires. The will is used to motivate action, which gives the behavior an “as if” quality. The eventual outcome is depression and despair.Lowen’s solution is for the person (that is the ego) to become more associated with the natural life of the body, which is always in the present, and in reality. In this way it is possible to become related to the world and other people. The origin of the problem is usually in early life, but an important topic is how many modern social trends push the individual into this split