Books by Alexander Lowen, M.D.

"Lowen has done more than any other single person to promote the knowledge of the body in psychotherapy to a wide professional and non-professional audience."

- Edward W.L. Smith

Author, The Body in Psychotherapy

Alexander Lowen authored 15 books that have been translated into more than a dozen languages (see below). This section showcases all of Lowen's published works and will soon link to the publishers and vendors offering the books for purchase. The books in English are available through our Foundation Store.

• The Language of the Body (1958)
  Originally published as Physical Dynamics of Character Structure

 

• Love and Orgasm: A Revolutionary Guide to Sexual Fulfillment (1965)

 

• The Betrayal of the Body (1967)

 

• Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Life (1970)

 

• Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses
  the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind (1976)

 

• Depression and the Body: The Biological Basis of Faith and Reality (1977)

 

• The Way to Vibrant Health: A Manual of Bioenergetic Exercises (1977)
  co-author Leslie Lowen

 

• Fear of Life (1980)

 

• Narcissism: Denial of the True Self (1984)

 

• Love, Sex, and Your Heart (1988)

 

• The Spirituality of the Body: Bioenergetics for Grace and Harmony (1990)

 

• Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life (1995)

 

• Honoring the Body: The Autobiography of Alexander Lowen, M.D. (2004)

 

• The Voice of the Body: Selected Public Lectures 1962-1982 (2005)

 

• L'arte di Vivere (2013)

 

 

Translated into: 

 

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Finnish

French

German

Italian

Greek

Polish

Japanese

Portuguese

Spanish

Swedish

Russian

Turkish