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Where was Thomas Louis Hanna educated after Sep 1951?
Thomas Louis Hanna Thomas Louis Hanna ( November 21 , 1928 – July 29 , 1990 ) was a philosophy professor and movement theorist who coined the term somatics in 1976 . He called his work Hanna Somatic Education . He proposed that most negative health effects are due to what he called Sensory Motor Amnesia . He claimed that many common age-related ailments are not simply a matter of time but the result of poor movement habits . Life . Thomas Hanna was born in Nov . 21 , 1928 in Waco , Texas , the son of Winifred Hanna and John Dwight Hanna , a traveling representative for a pharmaceutical firm . He went to Waco High School . In 1949 , Thomas Hanna earned a bachelors degree in theology from Texas Christian University . The following year he married Susan Taft on 12 May 1950 . They went to Paris and Thomas Hanna served as Director at Jean de Beauvais Club of the University of Paris . Returning to the US he earned a Bachelors of Divinity at the University of Chicago by 1954 and went on to get his PhD in philosophy and divinity in 1958 . He went on to lecture and research at different universities , first at Hollins College in Roanoke , Virginia and as a guest teacher at the University of North Carolina , Duke University , Paris , Brussels , Mainz and Guadalajara . From 1965-1973 he was Professor and Chairman at the philosophy department of the University of Florida . In 1974 he remarried to Eleanor Criswell Hanna , the founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute . He died on 29 July 1990 in a car accident in Sonoma . His wife continued to teach his work following his death . Somatics . At the University of Florida , Hanna studied neurology and developed the idea that all life experiences lead to physical patterns in the body . In 1969 , he published these ideas in his book Bodies in Revolt : A Primer in Somatic Thinking . Moving to San Francisco in 1973 , he was introduced to the Functional Integration of Moshé Feldenkrais and in 1975 he participated in the first Feldenkrais course in the United States . Hanna became director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute ( later renamed into Saybrook Institute ) in 1973 . Together with his new wife Eleanor Criswell Hanna , they started the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training in 1975 and published the new journal Somatics : Magazine-Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences . It provided a new venue where the ideas of Somatics could be discussed . He developed his ideas and published them in Somatics : Reawakening The Minds Control Of Movement , Flexibility , And Health in 1988 . He proclaimed that its possible to age without chronic stiffness , bad back , chronic pain , fatigue , and that even high blood pressure dont occur if we maintain conscious control of nerves and muscles . He claimed that we can relearn abilities lost due to Sensory Motor Amnesia and develop what he calls Sensory-Motor Awareness . In 1990 he started his own training program at the Novato Institute to teach Hanna Somatic Education . Publications . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1958 ) . The Thought and Art of Albert Camus . Regnery Company . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1962 ) . The Bergsonian Heritage . Columbia University Press . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1962 ) . The Lyrical Existentialists . Atheneum . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1970 ) . Bodies in Revolt : A Primer in Somatic Thinking . Holt , Rinehart and Winston . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1976 ) . The End of Tyranny : An Essay on the Possibility of America . Freeperson Press . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1979 ) . Explorers of humankind . Harper & Row . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1980 ) . The Body of Life : Creating New Pathways for Sensory Awareness and Fluid Movement . Knopf . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1988 ) . Somatics : Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement , Flexibility , and Health . Da Capo Press . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1991 ) . Letters from Fred : A Novel . Freeperson Press . - Hanna , Thomas L . ( 1995 ) . What is Somatics ? In Don Hanlon Johnson , ed. , Bone , Breath and Gesture . 341-53 . Berkeley : North Atlantic . Publications on Hanna Somatic Education - Criswell-Hanna , Eleanor . ( 1985 ) . Biofeedback & Somatics : Toward Personal Evolution . Freeperson Press . - Criswell-Hanna , Eleanor . ( 1989 ) . How Yoga Works : Introduction to Somatic Yoga . Freeperson Press . - Criswell-Hanna , Eleanor . ( 2010 ) . CRAMs Introduction to Surface Electromyography , Jones & Bartlett Learning ; 2 edition . - Jim Dreaver . ( 1997 ) . Somatic Technique : A Simplified Method of Releasing Chronically Tight Muscles and Enhancing Mind/body Awareness . Kendall Hunt Pub Co . - Gold , Lawrence . ( 1997 ) . Handbook of Assisted Pandiculation . Self-published . - Gold , Lawrence . ( 1999 ) . Guidebook of Somatic Transformational Exercises . Self-published . - Gold , Lawrence . ( 2001 ) . Body Meditations . Self-published . - Gold , Lawrence . ( 2004 ) . Deeper Lovemaking : Move Freely , Enhance Your Sensuality , and Prolong Your Intimate Occasions . Self-published . - Gold , Lawrence . ( 2010 ) . Magic of Somatics . Self-published . - Gold , Lawrence . ( 2010 ) . Free Yourself from Back Pain . Self-published . - Craig Williamson . ( 2007 ) . Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living : A Practical Approach to Eliminating Chronic Back Pain , Tendonitis , Neck and Shoulder Tension , and Repetitive Stress Injuries . Trumpeter . - Noreen Owens . ( 2009 ) . Where Comfort Hides . Xlibris . - John Loupos . ( 2011 ) . The Sustainable You : Somatics and the Myth of Aging . Langdon Street Press . - Martha Peterson . ( 2011 ) . Move Without Pain . Dragon Door Publications . - James Knight . ( 2012 ) . Gentle Yoga through Somatic Exploration Workbook . Self-published . - Graeme Lynn . ( 2015 ) . Manner of Action : Understanding and Practicing The Alexander Technique , The Feldenkrais Method and the Hatha Yoga , as Methods of Somatic Learning . Branden Books . - Warren ( St . Pierre ) , Sarah . ( 2015 ) . Why We’re in Pain : Why chronic musculoskeletal pain occurs - and how it can be prevented , alleviated and eliminated with Clinical Somatic Education . Self-published . - Warren ( St . Pierre ) , Sarah . ( 2019 ) . The Pain Relief Secret : How to Retrain Your Nervous System , Heal Your Body , and Overcome Chronic Pain . TCK Publishing . - Hill , Suresha . ( 2016 ) . Somatic Intelligence : What Every Body is Dying for You To Know . One Sky Productions . - Hill , Suresha . ( 2016 ) . Somatic Intelligence : The Conversation Every Body Wants to Have with You . One Sky Productions . - Hill , Suresha . ( 2018 ) . Opposing Gravity : How to Recognize and Recover from Head Injuries . One Sky Productions .