Authorised Summaries of F. M. Alexander’s Four Books
Man’s Supreme Inheritance, Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual, The Use of the Self, The Universal Constant in Living
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Beschreibung
The Alexander Technique is a method for developing a conscious use of oneself in all activities of living.
The Technique was evolved by F. Matthias Alexander (1869–1955) who described his discoveries in great detail in four books published between 1910 and 1941:
Man’s Supreme Inheritance (1910, 1918)
Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual (1923)
The Use of the Self (1932) and
The Universal Constant in Living (1941).
The summaries, which were checked and approved by Alexander himself, were made in the late 1940s by the journalist Ron Brown, a pupil of Alexander.
Each summary provides an accessible, chapter-by-chapter synopsis of each of Alexander’s books. The abbreviated form provides an excellent introduction to Alexander’s writings and an overview of the development of his thinking over 30 years.
The summaries condense Alexander’s four books to about one fifth of their original word length. These shortened versions help to elucidate many points, crystallise the reasoning behind the arguments, and bring out the full force of Alexander’s practice and theory.
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Ron Brown
Ronald George Brown worked for Reuters, the Times diary, the Evening Standard ‘Londoner’s Diary’ and Associated Press. He also worked for the embryo United Nations in 1944. He was a heavy smoker and developed lung cancer, as well as T.B. Owing perhaps to a mild case of polio in his childhood he had impaired back and leg muscles which affected his walk and he later on he developed muscular dystrophy of the legs. He started having lessons with F. M. Alexander from about 1946-47 and, from then until his death, he continued to have lessons as frequently as he could manage, if not with F. M. Alexander, then John Skinner or Walter Carrington. His wife, the writer Joan Aiken reported that ‘He always returned absolutely revivified from his sessions with F. M. Alexander; he said that the sensation was literally like “walking three or four inches above the ground.”
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