The rediscovery of body awareness. A good and realistic sense of the body is essential for our well-being. However, in adapting to changing life phases and realities, it can temporarily or permanently be lost - often resulting in painful repression. This innovative and interdisciplinary work paves the way for embodied self-perception in the form of movements, sensations, and emotions. Alan Fogel's book connects the complicated, technical world of psychological and biomedical research with the lived world of human development and experience. It explains psychophysiological principles for overcoming harmful or traumatic stress. Body therapist and developmental psychologist Alan Fogel succeeds in clarifying our vague, instinctive knowledge about the body and self-perception.