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Knowing How to Stop

Subtitle: 
A Technique for the Prevention of the Wrong Use of the Self
By: 
Edited by Wilfred Barlow.
Material type: 
AT Focus: 
Alexander Technique
1946
Format: 
Booklet
Language: 
English
Publisher: 
Mouritz Bibliography
Cover image: 
Biblio ID: 
BAR946BE1
Base ID: 
BAR946BE1
Short Description: 

Early articles on the Technique by pupils of Alexander.

Contents: 

Contains eight articles: ‘Instinct and functioning in health and disease’ by Dr Peter Macdonald, ‘The F. Matthias Alexander and its relation to education’ by I. G. Griffith, ‘End-gaining and means-whereby’ by Aldous Huxley, ‘F. Matthias Alexander and the problem of animal behaviour’ by A. Rugg-Gunn, ‘The work of F. M. Alexander and the medical white paper’ by Dr D. S. Radcliffe Drew, ‘Knowing how to stop’ by Dr Wilfred Barlow, ‘The F. Matthias Alexander Technique’ by Frank Pierce Jones, and ‘Some objections answered’ by Dr Wilfred Barlow. Most of these have been reprinted elsewhere since (for example, in More Talk of Alexander and A Means to an End). The ‘Foreword’ by F. M. Alexander is an excerpt from his The Universal Constant in Living.