Betrayal of the Body

The Betrayal of the Body is Alexander Lowen's pioneering study of themind-body split. Lowen describes the way people deny the reality, needs, andfeelings of their bodies. This denial leads to the development of the divisionbetween mind and body, creating an over-charged ego obsessed with thinkingat [...]
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The Betrayal of the Body is Alexander Lowen's pioneering study of themind-body split. Lowen describes the way people deny the reality, needs, andfeelings of their bodies. This denial leads to the development of the divisionbetween mind and body, creating an over-charged ego obsessed with thinkingat the expense of feeling and being. This book illustrates the energetic factors behind the split, the factors thatproduce it, and the proven therapeutic techniques that are available to treat it. Lowen further explores the mind-body duality in the individual and its parallelduality and dysfunction in society between culture and nature, and betweenthinking and feeling.