Alexander Technique articles from DIRECTION Journal

Volume 1 Number 9

Emotions

Regular Features
Editorials, The Garlick Report, In All Directions (8 pages),
Book Reviews, Carrington on FM, Mis Direction, CounterPoint (letters),
Viewpoint, Friends of Alexander.

Articles In This Issue
Hazards & Hope - forgotten episodes of abuse
The Anatomy of Addiction - Jeremy Chance
Emotions: The Unacknowledged Partner - Ilana Rubenfeld
Do We Cry Because We Grieve, or Do We Grieve Because We Cry?" - Michael Johnson-Chase
Dreambody and Alexander Work - Aileen Crow
Uprightness, Gravity & Balance - Professor Tobias
Emotions, Muscles, Evolution & the Motor System - Dr David Garlick
ViewPoint - Robert Rickover
Friends of Alexander: Dr. Stewart McKay Part II - Margaret Long

Related Material
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 7 - [Feldenkrais & Alexander]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 8 - [Music & Musicians]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 10- [Dance Issue]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 3 - [Voice Issue]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 4 - [Sexuality]

Abstracts of Articles In This Issue
Issue Editor Barbara Conable

"Hazards & Hope"
In this moving article, an Alexander teacher catalogues her own journey
in discovering forgotten episodes of abuse and the issues of the 'Alexander touch".

"The Anatomy of Addiction"
You can't observe a drinking problem with a mirror. Jeremy Chance
discovers a relationship between Alexander's work and his battle with the bottle.

"Emotions: The Unacknowledged Partner"
Ilana Rubenfeld traces her Alexander origins, the AT lessons she gave Fritz Perls
and the learning process that led to her development of 'Synergy' emotional bodywork.

"Do We Cry Because We Grieve, or Do We Grieve Because We Cry?"
Michael Johnson-Chase draws on his background as an acting, Alexander & Feldenkrais
teacher to offer a theatrical view of the role of emotions in creating our character.

"Dreambody and Alexander Work"
Is 'good use' as an Alexandrian ideal limiting? Do bodily habits have voices? moods? concerns?
Aileen Crow revisits some classic Alexander outlooks in light of modern therapuetic techniques.

"Man the Tottering Biped: Part IV - Uprightness, Gravity & Balance"
This 4th of six installments on human postural evolution explores problems
and speculations on how we manage to stay upright in an extraordinary array of conditions.

"Garlick Report: Emotions, Muscles, Evolution & the Motor System"
Dr Garlick discuses the role emotion plays in communication, disease
and it's relevance to Alexander's ideas on the physiology of movement.

"ViewPoint"
Robert Rickover ponders the relationship of bodywork to sexuality.
"Sexuality," he writes "like Alexander's racism, is a topic we rarely address."

"Friends of Alexander: Dr. Stewart McKay Part II"
Margaret Long tells the story of Dr. McKay - a key figure who,
offering introductions, encouraged Alexander to set forth for London in 1903.