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In Memoriam: Dr. Carl Ginsburg. by Roger Russell, GCFP (Wednesday, January 16, 2019)
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~~ i) Notes following An Evening of Remembering Carl Solomon Ginsburg Thursday, May 23, 2019. The Feldenkrais Institute 134 West 26th St, 2nd Fl New York, NY 10001 Hosted by Donna Blank & Anna Wolf (Johnson-Chase). Those who attended might share with us and learn more about Carl, our dear colleague. Any Contributions to the event beyond expenses will be donated to the Feldenkrais Foundation.
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See the tabbed section below for Chapter titles and informal audio recordings ~ The Intelligence of Moving Bodies: A Somatic View of Life and its Consequences by Carl Ginsburg, Ph.D.,with the participation of Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg. Copyright © 2010 by Carl Ginsburg and Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg. All rights reserved. ISBN 978-0-9824235-4-7 Published by AWAREing Press 551 Cordova Rd. #369 Santa Fe, NM 87505 http://www.awareinginc.net/
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2OO6, 2OO7 FELDENKRAIS JOURNAL Volume 19, 20 AWARENESS
Volume 19 AWARENESS SUMMER 2OO6 THE FELDENKRAIS JOURNAL NO. 19
https://www.feldenkraisguild.com/files/Feldenkrais_Journals/Journal%2019_%20Awareness%20(2006).pdf
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The Importance of Daniel Stern, part II
A Review by Carl Ginsburg
The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
by Daniel Stern,
W.W. Norton and Co., 2004
Volume 20 AWARENESS.SUMMER 2OO7 THE FELDENKRAIS JOURNAL NO. 20
https://www.feldenkraisguild.com/files/Feldenkrais_Journals/Journal%2020_%20Awareness%20(2007).pdf
A review essay By Carl Ginsburg
“The necessity of dynamics and its relevance to the Feldenkrais Method”
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2011 Journal article and book reviews: Ginsburg, Carl, “The Inner and Outer: Phenomenology, Science and the Feldenkrais Method”, The Feldenkrais Journal, Volume 24, General Issue, 2011, pages, 53-63 in dokumen.pub_the-feldenkrais-journal-28-general-issue
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* The Compassionate Brain/ A Revolutionary Guide to Developing Your Intelligence to Its Full Potential by Gerald Hüther and Michael H. Kohn (Translator)pub Trumpeter, Boston & London, 2006
* Books reviewed in Ginsburg’s 2007 essay:
1/ The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older, by Elkhonon Goldberg, Free Press, 2005.
https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Wisdom_Paradox.html?id=Tc09AAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://books.google.ca/books?id=9NEN80chkT8C
2/ Intelligence tn Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge, by Jeremy Narby, Tarcher/Penguin, 2005.
No entry in books.google.ca; here is Amazon link
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000OCXFZQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
3/ Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo, by Sean B. Carroll, Norton, 2005.
https://books.google.ca/books/about/Endless_Forms_Most_Beautiful.html?id=CnnGKjzw3xMC&redir_esc=y
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39096.Endless_Forms_Most_Beautiful
4/ The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin’s Dilemma,
by Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart, Yale University Press, 2005.
~ https://books.google.ca/books?id=ktPkEk3PpwMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Plausibility+of+Life:+Resolving+Darwin%27s+Dilemma&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB8OX3wtfnAhUQsZ4KHTrwBCQQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Plausibility%20of%20Life%3A%20Resolving%20Darwin’s%20Dilemma&f=false
~ https://www.amazon.ca/Endless-Forms-Most-Beautiful-Science/dp/0393327795
5/ The Complementary Nature,
by I.A. Scott Kelso and David A. Engstrom, MIT Press, 2006
~ https://books.google.ca/books?id=USwTDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39&dq=The+Complementary+Nature&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX9ZXLx9fnAhWTqp4KHQYoCRAQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Complementary%20Nature&f=false
~ https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=The+Complementary+Nature&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss
REVIEWS Ginsburg 2010: The Intelligence of Moving Bodies: A Somatic View of Life and its Consequences by Carl Ginsburg, Ph.D., with the participation of Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg. P
Here is a book that offers deep insight into the human psyche from the perspective of how we move … engagingly written and filled with insightful exercises, Carl Ginsburg´s book is an elixir for both mind and body. ALAN FOGEL, PROFESSOR OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND AUTHOR OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF-AWARENESS
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I especially enjoy the vast context, the strings linking this thinking to so many diverse, creative Beings and the combination of humanness and rigorous inquiry … A true contribution for all of us RUSSEL DELLMAN, FOUNDER, THE EMBODIED LIFE SCHOOL; FELDENKRAIS TRAINER AND MEDITATION TEACHER
REVIEW
The Intelligence of Moving Bodies is a genuinely enlightening work, a revelation to anyone who lightly passes over the experience of his or her body and is thereby actually unfamiliar with the subtleties of bodily experience …
An extensive survey of recent work in psychology on feeling, perception, and motion runs in tandem with the exercises and provides a much-needed corrective to objective models with `how the body works`.
MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE, AUTHOR OF THE PRIMACY OF MOVEMENT & THE CORPOREAL TURN
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Chapter titles ~ Ginsburg 2010
Below are Chapter titles for The Intelligence of Moving Bodies:
A Somatic View of Life and its Consequences
by Carl Ginsburg, Ph.D.,
with the participation of Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg.
A Personal Preface …………………………………………………………………………………… xi
An Introduction to the Book ……………………………………………………….. 1
The Importance of Movement as a Biological Dimension
PART one
From Origin to Perception …………………………………………………. 9
1 INTRODUCTION to Part I ………………………………………………………………… 11
Life’s Contingencies Bring Questions …………………………………………………… 11
2 Origins ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 18
Origin I ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 21
Conscious Space ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 23
Inside and Outside …………………………………………………………………………………………. 26
Origin II What is Life? ………………………………………………………………………………….. 35
Movement and Life …………………………………………………………………………………………. 37
Origin III The Nervous System Makes Order:
So Does the Biological System as a Whole …………………………………………. 39
The Order Problem ………………………………………………………………………………………… 40
Non-linearity ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 45
Movement and Sentience ……………………………………………………………………………. 47
3 Perception ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 50
John Lilly’s Experiment ……………………………………………………………………………….. 52
Out on the Grass with my Dog …………………………………………………………………. 52
Eigen Forms ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 55
Explorations in Perceiving ………………………………………………………………………… 59
4 Space ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 70
Being in the World ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 72
The Effect of Changing the Spatial Environment
of Perception and Function ………………………………………………………………………… 77
The Space of Yourself and the Sense of Self ……………………………………… 78
5 Time ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 84
Event Perception …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 85
The Specious Present …………………………………………………………………………………… 88
Time and Movement ……………………………………………………………………………………… 90
6 The Contrast of Two Basic Attitudes ……………………… 93
The Conflict of Conceptualizations ………………………………………………………. 96
Plasticity …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 100
CONTENT
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PART two
Affect Learning and Development ……………………….. 107
7 Introduction to Part II …………………………………………………………… 109
A Review of our Progress …………………………………………………………………………. 109
8 A New Look at Infancy:
Human Affect and Emotion …………………………………………………. 112
‘Affect and the Emotions’:
The Relation to Movement and Embodiment …………………………………. 119
9 A New Look at Infancy: SeLf-Learning ………………….. 129
The Conditions of Self-Learning, Part I …………………………………………….. 129
The Conditions of Self-Learning, Part II:
Applying the Feldenkrais Insights ………………………………………………………. 139
10 FROM PERCEPTION TO CONCEPTION ………………………………….. 143
Preverbal Conceptualization:
Thinking begins before language …………………………………………………………. 145
Making the Label: A Dialog ……………………………………………………………………… 148
11 Affect: A Hidden Dimension and
a Major Part of Daily Life ……………………………………………………… 152
The examples of music, painting, and dance ………………………………….. 152
Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven’s Sonata Number 13 ……………………. 153
Affect: Movement in Painting ………………………………………………………………… 162
Affect and Dance: Bodies in Movement …………………………………………….. 165
PART THREE
What Can We Do with what
We have Learned? …………………………………………………………………. 171
12 INTRODUCTION to Part III ………………………………………………………….. 173
Somatic Thinking and Feldenkrais Functional Integration —
Paradigms of a New Practical Thinking ……………………………………………. 173
The Discovery of a Learning Pathway ……………………………………………….. 176
Learning the Art of Functional Integration ……………………………………. 182
What is Function? What is Integration? …………………………………………… 184
13 The MindSet of Self-Learning …………………………………………… 186
Case Study: Working with a Young Child ………………………………………… 188
Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg
Case Study: A Forty-Eight-Year-Old Man with a Stroke …………. 201
Carl Ginsburg
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Perception, Movement, Space:
The Importance of Phenomenology …………………………………………………… 207
The Missing Image ……………………………………………………………………………………… 208
14 The Conditions of Self-Learning III: ………………………… 212
Shifting Patterns of Mobilization and the Question of Pain ….. 212
Movement, Pattern, Pain: Unlocking the Mystery ………………………. 213
Referred Pain and Body Pattern ……………………………………………………………. 221
15 Moving Yourself as an Entry into
Awareness and Self-Observation ………………………………… 223
Important and Necessary Conditions for Learning …………………… 223
Exploring Synergies …………………………………………………………………………………… 226
Completing the Image Improves
the Self-Perception and the Synergy …………………………………………………. 230
Exploring Reflexive Balancing ………………………………………………………………. 231
Finding Two Ways of Attending …………………………………………………………… 235
16 The Necessity of Dynamics ………………………………………………….. 239
Complexity in Nature ………………………………………………………………………………… 239
Coordination Dynamics ……………………………………………………………………………. 243
Feldenkrais’ Cybernetic Loop Model of Movement,
Learning and Environment ……………………………………………………………………… 247
17 The Intersection of Science and Experience… 249
The View from Monte Grande ……………………………………………………………….. 252
What is a Brain for Anyway? ………………………………………………………………….. 253
Some Clashes Between Science and Common Belief and
the Usefulness of Experience ………………………………………………………………… 255
The Example of Mirror Neurons ………………………………………………………….. 262
Inter-subjective Connections: The Art of Dancing Together…. 266
Learning Re-visited …………………………………………………………………………………….. 267
An After Word ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 270
CONTENT
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Appendices / references …………………………………………… 277
Appendix I
Notes on Language and comparisons …………………………… 278
Appendix II
Neurological Aspects of
the Feldenkrais Method ……………………………………………………………….. 288
1. A List of some Interventions used in the Feldenkrais Method
and the Effects on CNS Patterns of Mobilization ……………………….. 288
2. The Body in Gravity ……………………………………………………………………………………. 290
3. Inter-subjectivity as Mediated Through Body Contact ……………. 291
4. Future Investigations …………………………………………………………………………………. 292
References ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 293
Suggestions for further reading …………………………………….. 299
Acknowledgments ……………………………………………………………………………….. 301
About the Authors ………………………………………………………………………………. 303
Carl Ginsburg …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 304
Copyright © 2010 by Carl Ginsburg and Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg. All rights reserved. ISBN 978-0-9824235-4-7
Published by AWAREing Press 551 Cordova Rd. #369 Santa Fe, NM 87505 http://www.awareinginc.net/
Informal readings ~ Ginsburg 2010
Informal readings ~ The Intelligence of Moving Bodies:
A Somatic View of Life and its Consequences
by Carl Ginsburg, Ph.D.,
with the participation of Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg. 2010.
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**Notes from FELDENKRAIS RESOURCES regarding “The Intelligence of Moving Bodies by CARL GINSBURG & Lucia Schuette-Ginsburg” ”I would like to bring your attention to Carl’s potent contribution to our profession through the book he wrote with his wife Lucia Shuette-Ginsburg: The Intelligence of Moving Bodies. Feldenkrais Resources together with Lucia would like to offer 50% REDUCTION on the cost of the book through FEBRUARY 15th, 2020. We hope to honor his memory and encourage a wider appreciation of this gift that Carl left the Feldenkrais community.”
https://www.feldenkraisresources.com/The-Intelligence-of-Moving-Bodies-p/1425h.htm
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