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2 Number 4
Sexuality
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Regular
Features
Editorials, The Garlick Report, In All Directions (12 pages),
Carrington on FM, Book Reviews, Mis Direction, CounterPoint (letters),
Viewpoint, Friends of Alexander.
Articles
In This Issue
Boys on Bike
- Gentian Rahtz
Ethical Issues of Sexual Contact - Mary Cox interview by J. McDowell/W.
Bonington
A Survey of Sex - Chlöe Stallibrass
We are Sexless, Not! - Nicola Hanefeld
Sex & Love Addicts - Joan Diamond
Sexuality? Whose? - Colleen Heenan
There's More Between the Hips then Meets the Hands - Kathleen Hannan
Aphorisms of Marjorie Barstow
FM Alexander & Samuel Butler - Jeroen Staring
The Psychological Centrality of the Pelvis - Dr David Garlick
ViewPoint - Robert Rickover
Friends of Alexander: Allan & Co - Margaret Long
Obituary - Marjorie Barstow - Nancy Forst Williams
Sex Habits and How to Break Them - Alfred Flechas
Alexander Online - Richard Carbough
Book Bites - David Gibens
ATI Roundup
NASTATNews Roundup
Deferred Service - Walter Carrington
Book Reviews - Edited by David Gibbens
STATNews Roundup
STAT AGM - Pat Martins
Mis Direction - Editorial
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Abstracts
of Articles In This Issue
Issue
Editor Robert Rickover
"Boys on Bike"
Gentian Rahtz reflects on the dilemma posed by all teachers and therapists
when your 'client' turns out to be wildly attractive and doesn't mind the
fact that you notice.
"Ethical Issues
of Sexual Contact"
Mary Cox is interviewed by Jamie McDowell & Wendy Bonington
about the issues faced when a teacher/therapist crosses the line of 'professional
friendship'.
"A Survey of
Sex"
Chlöe Stallibrass, while herself training, took the opportunity to
extensively interview other
trainees about how the course changed their most intimate sexual attitudes
and practises.
"We are Sexless,
Not!"
Nicola Hanefeld decries the often unspoken attitude that somehow sexuality
and gender
play no part in the teaching transaction - her experiences demonstrate the
very opposite.
"Sex & Love
Addicts"
Joan Diamond offers a moving insight into the process of addiction through
her own battle
dealing with harmful notions of 'love', and her discovery of the deeper
meaning of 'inhibition'.
"Sexuality? Whose?"
Colleen Heenan details the bias and ignorance that gay & lesbians face
in a heterosexual
world by detailing her battle with STAT to have details of her support group
published.
"There's More
Between the Hips then Meets the Hands"
Kathleen Hannan, who describes herself as a bisexual lesbian, offers an
outspoken
account of the journey exploring her sexuality within a conservative Alexandian
context.
"Aphorisms of
Marjorie Barstow"
Echoing Alexander's own Zen-like genius, these aphorisms offer a pithy insight
into the
process of an Alexander lesson: "All you want is a little bit of nothing."
Marj once told a pupil.
"FM Alexander
& Samuel Butler"
Jeroen Staring is no apologist for Alexander - FM was a racsist, no question.
Here he presents
his case and the man who Staring concludes was the source of Alexander's
outdated ideas on race.
"The Psychological
Centrality of the Pelvis"
Dr David Garlick wonders if the physical proximity of our pelvis is reflected
psychologically?
He details all the habits of misuse encountered on a neuro-mucular level
to explore his question.
"ViewPoint"
Robert Rickover explores a paper by Jeroen Staring that suggests that one
reason for poor use
of the 'primary control' is that we no longer rip of hunks of dead flesh
directly with our teeth.
"Friends of Alexander:
Allan & Co"
Allans were Alexander's first publishers, offering copies of a 20 page pamflet
on breathing
for six pence - too expensive Allans thought, until Alexander quickly sold
60 copies.
"Obituary - Marjorie
Barstow"
Nancy Forst Williams, a longtime student of Marj's and a resident of Lincoln,
Nebraska,
fondly recalls the life and work of one of the Alexander world's greatest
teachers.
"Sex Habits and
How to Break Them"
Alfred Flechas, slightly tongue in cheek, challenges Alexander teachers,
who claim to be
dealing with breaking harmful habits, to tell him how they would rehabilitate
a sex offender?
"Alexander Online"
Richard Carbough details the history and work of himself and Jeffrey Haas
in establishing
the first Alexander Internet Subscriber Newsletter - also includes details
for subscribing to the list.
"Book Bites"
David Gibens reviews the latest offerings in the exponentially expanding
catologue
Alexander books, pamflets and videos - keep up to date with the latest in
Alexander literature.
"ATI Roundup"
ATI is the 'alternative' Alexander Society. It consists of teachers on three
continents and
operates under an entirely different premise to that of the 'Societies".
Read this to find out how.
"NASTATNews Roundup"
Continuing our regular service, we offer readers a summary of the news and
events
of the world's second largest association of Alexander teachers - catch
up by reading this.
"Deferred Service"
Walter Carrington writes about his experience of training with FM, and the
effect that
the second world war had on both his training and relationship with Alexander.
"Book Reviews"
Reviewed in this edition by David Gibbens: "Two Essays" by Jeroen
Staring;
"Up from Down Under" by Rosslyn McLeod; and "The Expanding
Self" by Goddard Binkley.
"STATNews Roundup"
In this summary we review Misha Magidov attack on a section of Alexander
teachers,
news from the Alexander Foundation and the advent of new, collective 'big-brother'
Society.
"STAT AGM"
Pat Martins had a whale of a time preparing the 1995 STAT AGM at Fircroft
College
and here she details the topics, discussion, environment and attendees to
this event.
"Mis Direction"
Mis Direction is scandalised that there's an issue on 'Sects and the Alexander
Technique'.
"Sects! Sects! Sects!" she writes "It's become all that some
Alexander teachers talk about."
Related
material
DIRECTION
Vol 1 Number 5 - [Brighton Congress]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 7 - [Feldenkrais And Alexander]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 8 - [Musicians And Music]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 9 - [Emotions]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 10 - [Dance Issue]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 3 - [Voice Issue]