Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual

by F. Matthias Alexander

Alexander's second book on his technique. It was first published in 1923. The present edition consists of Alexander's authorized 1946 edition. Ten appendices contain reviews of the first edition. It contains the well-known practical procedure described in the chapter "Illustration." £20.00

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This new edition contains two prefaces by Alexander, an introduction by John Dewey, and a new foreword by Walter Carrington. Ten appendices contain reviews of the first edition. The introductory notes by Jean M. O. Fischer discusses Alexander's concept of sensory appreciation and the chapter "Illustration". The notes also provide a printing history and a table of changes between the 1923 and the 1946 editions. The book contains several illustrations which have never been published before. This also the first edition ever of Constructive Conscious Control to feature an index.

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F. M. Alexander teaching John Dewey in c. 1918. Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual contains 10 b/w illustrations on plates.

Contents

• List of Illustrations
  Foreword by Walter Carrington
  Preface to New Edition
  Preface
  Introduction by John Dewey
  Introductory Notes by Jean M. O. Fischer
  
  
• Part One: Sensory Appreciation in its Relation to Man’s Evolutionary Development
• Part Two: Sensory Appreciation in its Relation to Learning and Learning to Do
  I. Education and Re-Education
  II. Incorrect Conception
  III. Imperfect Sensory Appreciation
  IV. Illustration
  V. Respiratory Mechanisms
  VI. Unduly Excited Fear Reflexes, Uncontrolled Emotions and Fixed Prejudices
  VII. Psycho-Physical Equilibrium
• Part Three: Sensory Appreciation in its Relation to Man’s Needs
  I. "Knowing Oneself"
  II. Imitation
  III. Concentration and the Sustained (Continuous) Projection of Orders
  IV. Memory and Feeling
  V. Complexity and Complications in Relation to Stress and Strain
  
• Part Four: Sensory Appreciation in its Relation to Happiness
  Sensory Appreciation in its Relation to Happiness
• Conclusions
  Psycho-Physical Attitude
• Appendices
  a. "A New Scientific Principle" - Review by Horace Thorogood in The Star
  b. "In the Name of Science" - Review in the Yorkshire Post
  c. Review in The Scotsman
  d. Review in The Edinburgh Evening News
  e. Review in The Lancet
  f. "Conscious Control" - Review in the British Medical Journal
  g. "Human Skulls Dug Up by the New Psychologists" Review by Howard Devree in the New York Times
  h. Review in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, with correspondence
  i. Review by Katharine B. Codman in The Public Health Nurse
  j. "Increasing Consciousness" - Review in The Times Literary Supplement
• Index
  
  

Errata

Page 118: line 11: for "scientific" read "specific"

Publication notes

First published 1923. Second revised edition 1946. Mouritz edition published 3 August 2004.

Paperback, 280 pages, 10 b/w photos on plates, frontispiece. Printed on 90gsm Acid Free Book Wove. ISBN 0-9543522-6-2.