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Authors: George A. Katchmer, James O'Leary (Editor), Thomas G. Gutheil
ISBN-13: 9780940871281, ISBN-10: 0940871289
Format: Paperback
Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
Date Published: March 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Synthesizes the energy paradigms of Taoism and psychoanalysts Jung, Reich, and Lowen.
Acknowledgments | ||
Biography | ||
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction | ||
Pt. 1 | The Energy Paradigm in China | 1 |
1 | China: A Society Based on Energetics | 3 |
2 | Macrocosmic Qi | 21 |
3 | Human Qi and Chinese Medicine | 46 |
4 | Uses of Qi: Qigong | 74 |
5 | Uses of Qi: Alchemy | 89 |
Pt. 2 | The Energy Paradigm in the West | 107 |
6 | The West: The Avoidance of Change | 109 |
7 | Western Medical History | 126 |
8 | The Theory of Libido | 142 |
9 | Wilhelm Reich and Bio-Physics | 157 |
10 | Alexander Lowen - The Spirit in Reich's Body | 189 |
11 | Pictures of Energy - Jung Revisited | 203 |
Conclusion | 214 | |
Bibliography | 219 | |
Appendix A Translation of Chinese Terms | 224 | |
Index | 226 |