Joy : the surrender to the body and to life
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Joy : the surrender to the body and to life
（Penguin compass, . Psychology）
Penguin Compass, c1995
- : pbk
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"First published in Arkana, 1995"--T.p. verso
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Description
Dr. Alexander Lowen believes that the key to personal change is 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 book reviews the essentials of bioenergetic therapy in the light of other therapeutic approaches, and teaches how to surrender to joy by using bioenergetic principles. It discusses aggression, disappointment, sexual abuse, the fear of dying and issues of spirituality as it attemps to make joy a more common experience.
Table of Contents
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
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