"Healing the split between my mind and my body has been my life's challenge. In the sixty years that I have practiced psychotherapy, I have learned that the pathway to emotional health is through the body. The underlying purpose of Bioenergetic Analysis has always been to heal the mind-body split." - From the Introduction. Alexander Lowen was a teacher, lawyer, medical doctor, psychotherapist, writer, and a pioneer in the fields of body-psychotherapy and psychobiology. His life and work are recorded in this candid autobiography.