Content

• Unmisted by love or dislike by Claire Rechnitzer
• On learning and teaching the F. M. Alexander Technique by Kathleen Ballard
• Statistical evidence that the beneficial effect of learning and applying the Alexander Technique is generic by Chloe Stallibrass
• Elisabeth Walker – A portrait of a life with the Alexander Technique

'Unmisted by love or dislike' (pp. 5-20) by Claire Rechnitzer (This article won the second prize in the 2008 Mouritz Award). 'On learning and teaching the F. M. Alexander Technique' (pp. 21-40) by Kathleen Ballard (1989 F. M. Alexander Memorial Lecture). 'Statistical evidence that the beneficial effect of learning and applying the Alexander Technique is generic' (pp. 41-53) by Chloe Stallibrass. Poems: 'Gravity's Law' by Rainer Maria Rilke and 'Quintessence' by anonymous (pp. 54-55). 'Elisabeth Walker – A portrait of a life with the Alexander Technique' (pp. 56-66) by Jean M. O. Fischer. Book review: 'The Mind and the Brain' by Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley (pp. 67-76) – Reviewed by Jean M. O. Fischer. 'Behind the chair – Jeeves and Wooster go 'Right Ho!' with Alexander' (pp.77-80).