The Human Story: Forming a Personal World
From a formative view, the human process is a continual series of forming and re-forming. Cycles of organizing, disorganizing and re-organizing are biological-emotional processes that go on all our...
Learning From and Collaborating With Stanley Keleman: Recollections From the Early Days
I have known Stanley Keleman for 34 years. At the time I met him, I was disillusioned with psychoanalysis, and I was seeking an alternative approach and guidance in how to strengthen and grow...
Formative Psychology– An Education
Stanley Keleman’s 1985 book Emotional Anatomy and the DVD Emotional Anatomy have established an original way of conceiving and understanding how the soma develops and forms itself. In my role as...
Formative Conversations with Stanley Keleman
Meeting Stanley Keleman and embracing Formative Psychology When I first read Emotional Anatomy in 1986, I was deeply impacted by the Formative Paradigm, by the vision of the...
The Sudden Loss of Stanley as Catalyst
for Growth
My father died at the same age and in the same manner as Stanley: one day I was speaking with him and the next day he was gone. The kind of death we are unprepared for, except perhaps by virtue of...
Acting Hands
“The gods gave man brains and hands and created him in their own image – they gave him a gift, an ability superior to animals – through which he is capable of acting not only within the...
