Emotional Anatomy: The Structure of Experience, Stanley Keleman, Center Press, 1985, HC, NF.

Keleman, Stanley. Berkeley: Center Press, 1985. 

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 8 3/4", [x] xiii, 161 pp. 

ISBN: 0934320071

Black cloth over board, gilt lettering to spine, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, and endpapers. Very Good brown pictorial dust jacket, featuring anatomy illustration to front, black-and-white photograph of author, Stanley Keleman to back interior flap, yellow, pink, and white lettering to front, back, spine, and interior flaps, small closed tears and minor wear to edges, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [x] xiii, 161 pp. Includes 120 black and red original drawings, Introduction, 6 chapters: "Creation," "The Body Plan," "Insults to Form," "Patterns of Somatic Distress," "Somatic Reality," and "Somatic Interactions." Includes laid-in publisher's future publications card. From inside dust jacket: "Th[e] first half of Emotional Anatomy introduces embryology, the creation of human shape...The remainder of the book illustrates four basic patterns of somatic distress--rigid, dense, swollen, and collapsed--[and] describes how they function..." The author is a proponent of 'somatic psychology', the study of the body, and its connection to the emotional, psychological, sexual, and imaginative aspects of the human experience.