Energy & Character is a journal above all a means of communication among colleagues and professionals in the body psychotherapy community at large all over the world.

The title Energy & Character suggests on the one hand physics and biology, the energetic roots of existence, and on the other hand character, in the psychic and social meanings. Character has roots in ancient Greek which on the one hand refer to the formation of the personality in the culture, and on the other hand relate to the core, or essence of the person, his or her unique individuality.

CONTENTS

Jim Cairns – Corporate Authority and Social Change

Myron Sharaf – Reich’s Functional Method

Stanley Keleman – How to Evaluate the Body

David Boadella– Styles of Breathing

Gerda & Mona
Lisa Boyesen – Spontaneous Movements and Visceral Armour

Anton Lethin – Muscle Tone and Feeling

Jerome Liss – Good Holding and the Barriers to Obtaining It

David Smith – Cosmic Influences on Character

Peter Eedy – Therapy, or Acting Out?

Joshua Cohen – The Snake Dance of the Hopi

Bruce Hertz – Legal Step Taken to Open Dr Wilhelm Reich’s Files

Gotfried Heuer – The Reception of Reich’s Work in Germany

REVIEW

David Boadella – The Taste of Colour, a Touch of Love by W. S.Moise

Trevor Constable – The Cosmic Pulse of Life: the Revolutionary Biological

Luigi De Marchi – Psicopolitica (Psychopolitics)