A compilation of material by Alexander not included in his four books. It contains all known early articles on the Technique, from 1895 to 1910 all of Alexander's known lectures a revealing autobiographical sketch by Alexander £14.95

Paperback, 244 pages.

More details: Articles and Lectures

The book consists of six sections: Early Articles, Published Letters, Lectures. Teaching Aphorisms, "Alexander and the Doctors", and Autobiographical Sketch.

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Note that the hardback edition of Articles and Lectures is out of print.

Contents

• Part 1: Early Articles 1894 –1910
  1. Elocution as an Accomplishment: Hobart Times, July 1894
  2. Natural Elocution: Auckland Star, July 1895,
  3. The Human Voice cultivated and developed for Speaking and Singing by the New Methods, (c. 1900.)
  4. The Prevention and Cure of Consumption (December 1903)
  5. A Respiratory Method leaflet (c. 1905)
  6. Disciplinary Singing and Heart Disease (January 1906)
  7. Mr. F. Matthias Alexander's New Method of Respiratory and Vocal Re-education (c. February 1906, from Alexander Journal No. 10)
  8. Introduction to a New Method of Respiratory Vocal Re-Education (1906)
  9. The Theory and Practice of a New Method of Respiratory Re-Education (March 1907)
  10. The Dangers of Deep Breathing (March 1908)
  11. Why "Deep Breathing" and Physical Culture Exercises do more harm than good (1908)
  12. Re-education of the Kinæsthetic Systems (1908)
  Breathing and Cancer (October 1909)
  Why We Breathe Incorrectly - Some points in connection with a Scientific Explanation of the Latest Developments in Breathing, Physical Culture and Voice Production (November 1909)
  Supplement to Re-Education of the Kinæsthetic Systems (April 1910)
  A Protest - against certain assumptions contained in a Lecture delivered by Dr. R. H. Scanes Spicer, B.Sc., M.D. London (April 1910)
• Part 2: Published letters 1924 - 1948
  "Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual"-letter to The Lancet (June 1924)
  "Posture in Health and Disease"-letter to the British Medical Journal (May 1926)
  "Body and Mind"-letter to the British Medical Journal (May 1928)
  "The Use of the Self"-letter to the British Medical Journal (June 1932)
  "The Use of the Self"-letter to the British Medical Journal (July 1932)
  "Ends and Means in Treatment"-letter to British Journal of Physical Medicine (November 1948)
• Part 3: Lectures 1926 - 1949
  "An unrecognized Principle in Human Behaviour" (delivered at the Child Study Society, 1925)
  Bedford Physical Training College Lecture, 1934
  St. Dunstan's Lecture, 1949
• Part 4: Teaching Aphorisms 1930s
• Part 5: "Alexander and the Doctors" 1931 - 1950
  Foreword to the unfinished book by Ron Brown entitled Alexander and the Doctors (c. 1950)
  "Manufacturing Premises for Required Deductions" (c. 1949)
  Unpublished foreword to a now lost autobiography (1931)
  Autobiographical Sketch covering the years 1869-1904 (c. 1950)

Publication notes

First published 9 July 2011.

Paperback, 244 pages, ISBN 978-0956849830.