This is Keleman's first book and the one which covers the most basic aspects of his work and philosophy. In a style that quickly engages the reader, he weaves a picture of human form and experience--the many ways people take on self-definition. Short, concise chapters include many case histories and therapeutic dialogues from Keleman's workshops. 


ISBN 0-934320-02-0 paper (1971), 195 pages

Formerly published by Random House and now in its sixth printing, Keleman's popular book examines attitudes toward dying, styles of dying, and styles of living.


ISBN 0-934320-09-8 paper (1974), 158 pages

Transitions—crises-changes, and turning points—are part of each human life and they include bodily transitions and experience. How life changes are expressed somatically is the theme of Somatic Reality.


ISBN 0-934320-05-5 paper (1979), 128 pages

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. 


ISBN 0-934320-01-2 paper (1981), 192 pages

A landmark work that revisions both anatomy and psychology. It presents in depth how sadness, anger, fear and other emotions are physiologically organized. With 120 original drawings.


ISBN 0-934320-10-1 paper (1985), 176 pages

A companion volume to Emotional Anatomy, this book describes the methodology that accompanies Keleman's somatic theories. Using a systematic guide, the reader is encouraged to identify his own somatic patterns and to learn from his experience.


ISBN 0-934320-12-8 paper (1987), 108 pages

This clinical study shows the process by which shock, trauma, abuse and neglect are embodied into individual somatic patterns of distress.


ISBN 0-934320-13-6 paper (1989) illustrated, case studies, 75 pages

An insightful analysis of the biological basis of love and individual patterns or styles of giving and receiving love. Includes case studies and suggestions for therapeutic intervention.


ISBN 0-934320-15-2 paper (1994), 96 pages

A discussion of some of the somatic aspects of transference and counter transference and the relation of body forms to the therapeutic process.


ISBN 0-934320-11-X paper (1996) diagrams, case studies, 131 pages

Stanley Keleman says in the introduction, "Myths serve a practical function. They enable people to organize the experience of their own bodies. Myths are a collective dream of a culture and are no different than a personal dream."


ISBN 0-934320-17-9 paper (1999), 91 pages

This small book of somatic essays opens a large world enveloping the past, the present and the time to come. It is brimming over with somatic wisdom Keleman has gained over the decades from listening to and teaching others and from listening to and teaching himself.


ISBN 0-934320-18-7 paper (2014), 31 pages

Stanley Keleman takes us on his artistic journey as he explores different embodied experiences of giving shape and meaning to living older age.


ISBN 0-934320-22-1 paper (2018), 69 pages