The Shapes of Depression and Panic:
A Video

Simple exercises to help manage depression and panic on DVD from Center Press

This video contains four simple exercises to help manage depression and panic.

They can be played over and over as you learn to recognize and change your emotional somatic patterns.

Berkeley, California
The Shapes of Depression and Panic is an emotionally dramatic 50 minute exercise DVD that shows the basic attitudes of depression and panic and how to manage them.

Available directly from Center Press, 2045 Francisco Street, Berkeley, CA 94709
510/845-8373  ($34.95 -- Calif. Residents add 8.75% tax.
Postage and Handling, add $5.50.
Outside U.S., add $12.50)

The exercises are small movements of the body that organize physical and emotional patterns of depression and panic, then disorganize them, giving participants a new sense of management and knowledge of their own shapes of depression and panic.

Depression and panic have their own body shapes, which bring changes in behavior, perception, feeling, and subjective image. When you change your shape, there is a possibility of changing your emotional state. The purpose of the exercises is to be able to have an influence on one's depressive and panic behavior.

The exercises were developed by Stanley Keleman, who, for over thirty years, has studied and written about the emotional life of the body (Emotional Anatomy, Your Body Speaks Its Mind), and is a pioneer in the field of somatic-emotional education.

The exercises are led by Terrence McClure, producer and writer, a lifelong sufferer of depression and panic, who uses the exercises daily to manage himself. He says, "When I started practicing the exercises, I didn't realize depression and panic were so closely related. Now, I can feel my panic lurking inside my depression. I see how I use one to mask the other".

Others practicing the exercises, who also have been using medication as part of their management program, say they are able to report more accurately to their medical practitioner as to what's going on with them, leading to more precise prescriptions and prognoses.

And finally, many who have had enormous difficulty tolerating their bouts of depression and/or panic, have been able to develop an ability to live with their condition much better, through practicing the exercises in The Shapes of Depression and Panic.