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Your body speaks its mind / Stanley Keleman.

By: Keleman, Stanley.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Berkeley : Center Press, c1981Description: 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0934320012 (pbk.).Subject(s): Bioenergetic psychotherapy | Body, HumanDDC classification: 616.8914
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This book is about the emotional language and biological language of the body, which Keleman puts together. 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.

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Kirkus Book Review

Keleman, whose Living Your Dying (1974) attracted a good deal of praise, is a bioenergetic therapist whose commendable motives cannot be doubted, but oh, my, how he writes. When he isn't announcing ""Each of us is a uniquely embodied field of oscillating excitation which resonates in the field of the biosphere,"" he's putting us ""in a position to reconnect more lusciously with our surround."" Does it mean anything? Well, of course it does; Kelman is working with experiences for which there are no names. What he calls pulsations and streamings have probably been felt at moments of physical and emotional excitement by all of us; boundary-forming and expansion are obviously, as Keleman claims, naturally successive processes of lifelong growth; emotional constrictions clearly have something to do with peculiarities of voice, posture, and facial expression, and it is not absurd to suppose that working on the ""effect"" may help the ""cause."" Still, these insights degenerate with remarkable swiftness into jargon, and Keleman's heavy reliance on metaphor tends to be annoying rather than illuminating. Aren't there any bioenergeticists who can write English? Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.