Alexander Lowen

Psychiatrist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied law at Brooklyn Law School (1934) and received the MD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland (1951). In 1954 he became executive director of the Institute for Bio-Energetic Analysis in New York City. He wrote extensively on the mind and body relationship, including The Betrayal of the Body (1967) and The Language of the Body (1971).

Dr. Alexander Lowen, a student of Wilhelm Reich's in the 1940s and early 1950s in New York, developed the mind-body psychotherapy known as bioenergetic analysis with his then colleague John Pierrakos.

Dr. Lowen received a bachelor's degree in science and business from City College of New York and continued on to receive an LLB from Brooklyn Law School.

Dr. Lowen currently lives and practices in New Canaan, Connecticut.

During his career, Dr. Lowen published fourteen books, including The Language of the Body in 1958, followed by Love and Orgasm (1965), The Betrayal of the Body,(1967) Pleasure (1970), Bioenergetics (1976), Depression and the Body (1977), Fear of Life (1980), Narcissism (1984), Love, Sex and Your Heart (1988), The Spirituality of the Body (1990), Joy (1995), Honoring the Body (2004), and The Voice of the Body (2005). Although a number of his books had gone out of print, they are all now being republished by Bioenergetics Press in association with The Florida Society for Bioenergetic Analysis. Lowen published his autobiography Honoring the Body: The Autobiography of Alexander Lowen, M.D. at age 93.