Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma

by Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick (Editor)

Overview

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 to heal was well as an intellectual spirit to harness this innate 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 a heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149358137
Publisher:	Ergos Institute, Inc.
Publication date:	06/02/1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
Sales rank:	80,829
File size:	750 KB

About the Author

Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into twenty-two languages. Levine’s contribution was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy.