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Body Language: B

An Excursion Through the Alphabet in Somatic Terms
by Thomas Myers

Body Language: BMyers connects the letter B with William Reich's Bioenergetics and "the bow-shape" posture. Myers details Reich's life from his involvement with Sigmund Freud to his death in 1957 in a Pennsylvania prison and provides the reader with a discussion of Reich's theory "of chronic muscular tension as a form of psychological armoring." Myers explains "the bow shape" posture, a form of "body topology," and then provides therapists with a method for postural correction and suggests ways the client can maintain that correct posture.