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Stanley Keleman

Stanley Keleman (November 1931 – August 11, 2018)[1] was


Stanley Keleman
an American writer and therapist, who created the body
psychotherapy approach known as "formative psychology". He Born November 1931
was one of the leaders of the body psychotherapy movement Brooklyn, New York,
nationally and internationally. His methodology rested on an
U.S.

anatomical base and incorporates an evolutionary, Died August 11, 2018


philosophical and mythological perspective; within this (aged 86)
formative paradigm the human is capable of learning voluntary Berkeley, California,
self-influence of instinctual and emotional expression as a way U.S.
to manage dilemmas of daily living and to form personal Alma mater Chiropractic Institute
choices for creating a future. Keleman started developin and of New York
articulating his concepts in 1957. In 1971, he published the first Alfred Adler Institute
of 10 books.[2] Known for Formative Psychology
body psychotherapy
Website http://centerpress.com/
Contents
Early life
Career
Early career and mentorships
Later career
Awards and honors
Bibliography
References

Early life
Keleman was born in Brooklyn in 1931, son of immigrants from Hungary and Romania. He graduated from
the Chiropractic Institute of New York, where he graduated in 1954.

Career

Early career and mentorships


During his early years as a chiropractic clinician, starting in 1955 he focused on stress reduction and began
to observe the relationship between emotional conflict, organismic movement and distortions of body
posture.[3][4][5]
In 1957, he became a member of Alexander Lowen’s Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis and was, until the
l970’s, a senior trainer there. He attended the Alfred Adler Institute and his thinking was profoundly
affected by Adler’s ideas on the relationship of the physical state of the organism to its functioning and the
role of society in personality development. This education balanced the characterological approaches of
Lowen, Freud, and Reich. He also started leading emotional expressive classes at this time to explore the
relationship between movement patterns and psychological expression.[3][4]

At this same time, he began a personal mentorship with Nina Bull, of, Columbia University, and author of
The Attitude Theory of Emotion.[6] He joined with her on a research project which resulted in her book,
The Body and Its Mind.[7] Bull’s study of the relationship of body attitude to instinctual and emotional
expression established the basis for Keleman’s somatic muscular-cortical model for influencing goal-
oriented behavior. This work became the driving force that transformed Keleman’s chiropractic orientation
from postural distortion to postural reorganization and profoundly influenced the direction of his work. In
working with her on her research he came to see how physical actions are at the base of the emotional
organization of a person and not the other way around. Action precedes emotion and is its creator; action
is not the result of emotion.[3]

In the early 1960s, he studied Daisen Analysis in Zurich with Dr. Dori Gutscher, in the school of Medard
Boss, and in Germany with Professor Karlfried Graf Durckheim, at the Center for Initiation Studies.
Durckheim offered an approach that used the human form to reveal the relationship of man to his own
nature and to nature in general. From these experiences Keleman evolved from an instinctual and social
emphasis, adding a phenomenological and existential orientation which he felt was a missing philosophical
perspective. These studies cemented Keleman's concept of the body as the center of one’s self and as the
source of self-knowledge. They gave seed to the experiences that eventually led to his development of the
approach of Formative Psychology and Keleman’s particular somatic-emotional methodology.[3][4][8]

He later moved to California where he interned at the Esalen Institute in group dynamics and was again
exposed to humanistic psychology, the leading edge of psychology at the time. There, he established his
unique form of working bodily, with the all important concept of evolution providing the underlying
context for his work and world view.[8] The interaction with many leaders of the humanistic movement
including Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, Alan Watts and others provided a forum for his ideas. He
met Joseph Campbell, the mythologist, and began a fifteen-year association, teaching an annual program
in which they developed connections between myth and the body. These workshops evolved into the
annual programs taught by Keleman in Berkeley and Solingen, Germany that connect dreams, body and
the formative process.[4][9]

Later career
Since 1971, Keleman has been the director of the Center for Energetic Studies in Berkeley, California where
he maintains a private and group practice and an active schedule of national and international educational
and professional programs.[10] Somatic-emotional education at the Center uses individual experience,
emotions, action patterns, insights, and images to discover how life has been shaped and what is seeking to
emerge. The focus is on learning to use the cortex and muscles to voluntarily generate experiences to grow
oneself and to create a personal skill for managing one’s life, in one’s own way.[10]
Beginning in the early 1990s, Keleman developed his work with an emphasis on education rather than
therapy. He has applied ideas from Darwin’s theory of evolution and Einstein’s theory of mass and energy
to understanding how shapes change over time and how the individual can learn to influence the body that
nature has given us. Along with his vision and philosophy of Formative Psychology, he has developed an
original methodology for teaching individuals how to participate in their own formative process. His focus
is on how the body shapes itself over time, through all of life’s stages, as part of an ongoing process of
voluntarily forming a future and a personal self.

Keleman has given public seminars on Formative Psychology at Spectrum Therapy in London, England.
Spectrum is a member of the international formative psychology community and its professional
supervision and study program.[11] Additional centers where Keleman’s Formative Psychology approach
provides the basis of both clinical work and education are Practice for Somatic Education and Therapy in
Groningen, The Netherlands [12] and the Institute for Stress Management in Mainz, Germany.[13]

Awards and honors


He was the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the USA Association of Body Psychotherapy
June 2005 [14] and the European Association for Body Psychotherapy in Berlin in September 2007. He
received an Honorary Ph.D. from Saybrook University in San Francisco on June 2007 for his contributions
to the field of Body Psychotherapy and Humanistic Psychology.

Keleman is the Honorary President and Director of Research at the Zurich School for Form and Movement
in Zurich, Switzerland,[15] the Brazilian Center of Formative Psychology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,[16] and at
the Institute for Formative Psychology in Solingen, Germany [17] where he also teaches.

Bibliography
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1999). Myth & The Body: A Colloquy with Joseph Campbell]. Berkeley, CA: Center
Press. ISBN 0-934320-17-9. In 1973, Stanley Keleman and Joseph Campbell began to hold what
would be fourteen annual seminars, to trade their thoughts on the subject of mythology and the body.
Myth & the Body is based largely on the transcriptions from these years of taped seminars. Campbell
and Keleman shared the belief that myths describe the experiences of the body and, in fact, are
metaphors for internal body states.[18]
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1994). Love: A Somatic View Berkeley, CA: Center Press. ISBN 0-934320-15-2.
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1989).Patterns of Distress: Emotional Insults and Human Form. Berkeley, CA:
Center Press. ISBN 0-934320-13-6.
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1996). Bonding: A Somatic Emotional Approach to Transference Berkeley, CA:
Center Press. ISBN 0-934320-11-X.
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1987). Embodying Experience: Forming a Personal Life Berkeley, CA: Center
Press. ISBN 0-934320-12-8.
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1985). Emotional Anatomy Berkeley, CA: Center Press. ISBN 0-934320-10-1.
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1983) 'In Defense of Heterosexuality Berkeley, CA: Center Press. ISBN 0-934320-
06-3 The book is a discussion of how of heterosexuality performs the function of bringing man and
woman together, to perpetuate life and to foster shared experience and the caring, contactful
dialogues that help humans grow as gendered persons.[19]
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1979). Somatic Reality. Berkeley, CA: Center Press. ISBN 0-934320-05-5.
Transitions--crises, changes and turning points--are part of each human life and they include bodily
transitions and experience. This book discusses how life changes are expressed somatically.[20]
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1981). Your Body Speaks Its Mind Berkeley, CA: Center Press. ISBN 0-934320-01-
2.• Illustrating Keleman's use of the body's emotional language and biological language of which he
says, "We do not have bodies, we are our bodies. Emotional reality and biological ground are the
same and cannot, in any way, be separated or distinguished." Life incarnate is a process of individual
human experience manifesting in the body. Originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1975.[21]
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1974) Living Your Dying Berkeley, CA: Center Press. ISBN 0-934320-09-8. •
Originally published by Random House. Examines big dying and little dyings in relation to the shaping
of our living, as well as attitudes toward dying, styles of dying, and styles of living.[22]
◾ Keleman, Stanley (1971). Human Ground: Sexuality, Self and Survival . Berkeley, CA: Center Press.
p. 195. ISBN 0-934320-02-0.

References
1. "USABP - Stanley Keleman: In Memoriam" (https://usabp.org/USABP-News/6644466). usabp.org.
Retrieved 8 September 2018.
2. "Center Press, Berkeley" (http://www.centerpress.com/publications.html). Retrieved 25 June 2013.
3. Keleman, Stanley; David Russell (1994) [1989]. Who Owns the Body: The Life and Work of Stanley
Keleman. Santa Barbara: UCSB Oral History Program. p. 311.
4. "TitleOfCitedItem". United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, USABP Journal. 6 (1). 2007.
5. David Van Nuys, Ph.D (10 August 2012). "Body Therapy and The Embodied Life, Interview with
Stanley Keleman" (http://shrinkrapradio.com/317-body-therapy-and-the-embodied-life-with-stanley-kel
eman-phd/). Shrink Rap Radio. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
6. Bull, Nina (1951). "The attitude theory of emotion" (https://books.google.com/books?id=c4h9AAAAMA
AJ).
7. Bull, Nina (1962). "The Body and Its Mind: An Introduction to Attitude Psychology" (https://books.googl
e.com/books?id=m2ZqQgAACAAJ&dq=The+Body+and+Its+Mind).
8. Keen, Sam (September 1973). "We Do Not Have Bodies, We Are Our Bodies, a Conversation with
Stanley Keleman about Bioenergetics and the Language of the Body". Psychology Today. 7 (4): 64–
70.
9. Laeng-Gilliatt, Stefan. "Charlotte Selver Oral History Project, Interview" (http://charlotteselverbook.org/
Pages/kelemanexcerpt.html). Retrieved 25 June 2013.
10. "Center for Energetic Studies" (http://www.centerpress.com/). Center for Energetic Studies. Retrieved
25 June 2013.
11. "Spectrum Therapy" (http://www.spectrumtherapy.co.uk/index.php/personal/personal_formative_psych
ology/category_one). Spectrum Therapy.
12. "Praktijk Voor Somatische Educatie En Therapie" (http://www.formative-psychologie.nl/index.html).
Praktijk Voor Somatische Educatie En Therapie. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
13. "Institute for Stress Management" (http://www.stressmanagement.de/emotionale-bildung.html). Institut
für Stressmanagement Mainz. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
14. Baum, Scott (Summer 2005). "The USABP 2005 Conference in Tucson" (http://www.eabp.org/pdf/USA
BPspring2005.pdf) (PDF). Keeping in Touch. Lifetime Achievement Award For Stanley Keleman: The
United States Association For Body Psychotherapy (22).
15. "Zurich School for Form and Movement" (http://www.oip-zfw.com/links-partner/stanley-keleman.aspx).
Retrieved 25 June 2013.
16. "Brazilian Center for Formative Psychology" (http://www.psicologiaformativa.com.br/). Centro de
Psicologia Formativa do Brasil.
17. "Institute for Formative Psychology" (http://www.formative-psychologie.de/). Institut für Formative
PsychologieTM, Solingen, Deutschland.
18. Conger, John (January 2001). "Book Review: "Myth and the Body" ". The United States association for
Body Psychotherapy Newsletter (Nr. 5).
19. Grieg, Michael (July 31, 1983). "Book Review San Francisco Chronicle, Magazine of Books, Art &
Music". San Francisco Chronicle.
20. Grieg, Michael (November 11, 1979). "Book Review. San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle".
San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle,.
21. Broyard, Anatole (October 23, 1975). "Nostrums ad Nauseam". The New York Times.
22. Luce, Gay (January 25, 1975). "The Prospect of Death". The New York Times.

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