Articles and Lectures: Articles, Published Letters and Lectures on the F. M. Alexander Technique

Tight square clean book in black cloth with gilt titles; unmarked but for name/note to half-title page; in crisp dust jacket with faint staining along lower front edge.; 372 pages; This is a posthumous compilation of F. M. Alexander’s shorter writings, published letters, lectures, and related material that were not included in his four main books (Man’s Supreme Inheritance, Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual, The Use of the Self, and The Universal Constant in Living). It gathers pieces spanning much of his career and covers key ideas of the Alexander Technique in more varied, sometimes more practical or polemical forms. Topics typically include: The principles of conscious guidance and control. Critiques of conventional approaches to posture, breathing, education, and health. Explanations of how faulty habits of “use” of the self develop and how they can be changed through inhibition and directed awareness. Responses to critics, letters on teaching and practice, and lectures that expand on or clarify points from his major books.…