Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick
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- Pub. Date: July 1997
- 288pp
- Sales Rank: 15,621
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: July 1997
- Publisher: North Atlantic Books
- Format: Paperback, 288pp
- Sales Rank: 15,621
- ISBN-13: 9781556432330
- ISBN: 155643233X
Synopsis
Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.
Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.
Biography
Peter Levine, Ph.D. is the originator and developer of Somatic Experiencing® and the Director of the Foundation for Human Enrichment. He holds doctorate degrees in both Medical Biophysics and Psychology. During his thirty year study of stress and trauma, Dr. Levine has contributed to a variety of scientific, medical, and popular publications. His book, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma is in its fifth printing and receiving wide international attention. Peter was a consultant for NASA during the development of the Space Shuttle, and has taught at hospitals and pain clinics in both Europe and the U.S., as well as at the Hopi Guidance Center in Arizona. He lives near Lyons, Colorado, on the banks of the St. Vrain River.
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Life changingby Anonymous
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July 11, 2009: This book is about a new type of 'therapy' unlike traditional talk therapies that has the potential to completely transform one's life. It not only gives a wonderful synopsis of how our brains work, from the animal brain to the human brain, but it shows beautifully how the natural pathway to resolving stress and trauma is short circuited in coordinating these two brains. The outcome is post traumatic stress in many areas of life that most of us are unaware that we have. This book explains how this therapy works and why. Since reading this book, along with a book about EMDR (self titled), I experienced this therapy and have found relief in areas of stress that have haunted me for decades. More importantly, my adopted daughter, now 13 years old and born drug exposed with multiple emotional problems, is finding herself now able to move forward in her ability to think, handle problems she encounters, and deal with everyday issues that were difficult with a new found peace that none of us knew was even possible for her. I recommend this book to everyone, not just those who have experienced trauma, because we all interpret trauma differently and what is minor for one person may make a major difference for another. If someone who has experienced PTSD from rape or war can benefit from this book, there are multiple examples of these in the book, imagine how this might work for more ordinary trauma that takes place for all of us constantly.
I Also Recommend: Transforming Trauma.
Simply a great book.by Anonymous
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January 26, 2009: An incredibly clear explanation of what trauma is, how it affects people and what can be done about it. Highly recommended for anyone dealing with the effects of trauma or if someone you know is.
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