Love: From Motion to Feeling: A Memoir by Jack Wiener, LP, CMDT

In his fourth book, Love: From Motion to Feeling, Jack Wiener writes a moving account of his lifelong quest to retrieve lost love, from early childhood to age 91. Through the lenses of psychoanalysis, a life in the performing arts, and his work teaching dance and movement to students of all ages, he tracks his growing self-awareness from early childhood, amid disappointments, failed romances, and a frightening bout of long Covid…ultimately reaching a place of deep wisdom, acceptance, and joy.

Praise for Jack Wiener:
“Wiener shares his analytic insights over the course of 72 years—a lifetime of grappling with rage, jealousy, and self-involvement—through the creative processes of dance and teaching movement, transference and countertransference, and paralyzing trauma, to arrive at our inherited humanity. I am touched by his understanding of the essence of feeling.”
—Michael Eigen, PhD, author of 27 books including Contact with the Depths, The Sensitive Self, and Feeling Matters.

“I awoke with tremendous gratitude for your contribution to the person I have become—both in body and psychological awareness.”
—Lyn Pyle (1940-2023), actor, choreographer, community organizer, co-founder of the Media Arts & Literacy youth program.

“Jack brings in his analytic thoughts to help you think about yourself and promote deeper growth and change.”
—Helene Bass-Wichelhaus, LCSW, PhD, certified psychoanalyst, Senior Member of  the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP).

Jack Wiener, founder of the internationally recognized School for Creative Movement, studied music, aesthetic movement, and both classical and modern dance techniques in the late 1950s with pioneering interpretive dance luminaries at the American Dance Festival and Juilliard. His awardwinning work as a dancer, choreographer, actor, producer, and creative movement instructor has informed and dovetailed with his later work as a therapist and psychoanalyst.
Wiener has written several books about movement education and the relationship between sensation and motion, including Creative Movement for Children: A Dance Program for the Classroom (co-authored with John Lidstone, PhD, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969), The Way of the 4th Toe (iUniverse.com, 2011), and Out of Aloneness: Discover the Natural Flow in Your Movement (IPBooks, 2020).  A psychotherapist since 1980 and New York State-licensed psychoanalyst since 1991, Wiener continues to practice and reside in New York City.