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Life makes shapes. Your individual shape is a dynamic interaction between personal emotional history and genetics.

Depression and panic have their own body shapes, which bring changes in behaviour, perception, feeling and subjective image. When you change your shape, there is a possibility of changing your emotional state.

This video includes four exercises. It can played over and over as you learn to recognise and alter your basic body patterns of depression and panic. In digitising the original VHS tape, the pauses for recording your experiences in a journal at the end of each exercise have been omitted.

"I didn't realise depression and panic were so closely related. Now, I can see my panic lurking inside my depression. I see how I use one to mask the other".

"When I'm depressed, I pressure myself. This practice showed me what I was doing and how to change it."

Terence MacClure, producer of The Shapes of Depression and Panic, lives in Berkeley. He manages his lifelong depression and panic.

Stanley Keleman, therapist, educator and author, is a pioneer in the study of the body and its emotional states. He has been practicing and developing somatic psychology for over thirty years.

(c) Center Press, Berkeley