Peter A. Levine Books

What parents, educators, and health professionals can do to recognize, prevent, and heal childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—by the author of Waking the TigerTrauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents like auto accidents, medical procedures, divorce, or even falling off a bicycle. At the core of this book is the understanding of how trauma is imprinted on the body, brain, and spirit—often resulting in anxiety, nightmares, depression, physical illnesses, addictions, hyperactivity, and aggression.Rich with case studies and hands-on activities, Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes gives insight into children’s innate ability to rebound with the appropriate support, and provides their caregivers with tools to overcome and prevent trauma.“ Trauma Through A Child’s Eyes . . . creates its own mold in a way that everyone concerned with the health and happiness of children will be grateful for.” —Gabor Maté, MD, author of Hold On to Your Kids

In What Should We Do?, Peter Levine explores how to organize individuals to act in concert, how to talk and think well about contentious matters, and how to address exclusion. In the broadest available theory of civic engagement and civic life, he analyzes the work of major thinkers, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jürgen Habermas, and Elinor Ostrom. He also provides many practical examples of successful civic action and principles that are useful for real-world civic action.

Unraveling Trauma in the Body, Brain and Mind—a Revolution in TreatmentIn this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche. In an Unspoken Voice is based on the idea that trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions. Enriched with a coherent theoretical framework and compelling case examples, the book elegantly blends the latest findings in biology, neuroscience and body-oriented psychotherapy to show that when we bring together animal instinct and reason, we can become more whole human beings.

"In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience. Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing case studies from his own practice, Dr. Levine suggests that there are elements of truth in both camps. While acknowledging that memory can be trusted, he argues that the only truly useful memories are those that might initially seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the body and not necessarily accessible by our conscious mind. While much work has been done in the field of trauma studies to address 'explicit' traumatic memories in the brain (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores 'implicit' memory, and how much of what we think of as 'memory' actually comes to us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt sense. By learning how to better understand this complex interplay of past and present, brain and body, we can adjust our relationship to past trauma and move into a more balanced, relaxed state of being. Written for trauma sufferers as well as mental health care practitioners, Trauma and Memory is a groundbreaking look at how memory is constructed and how influential memories are on our present state of being"-- Provided by publisher

Pentagon spending has been the target of decades of criticism and reform efforts. Billions of dollars are spent on weapons programs that are later abandoned. State-of-the-art data centers are underutilized and overstaffed. New business systems are built at great expense but fail to meet the needs of their users. Every Secretary of Defense for the last five Administrations has made it a priority to address perceived bloat and inefficiency by making management reform a major priority. The congressional defense committees have been just as active, enacting hundreds of legislative provisions. Yet few of these initiatives produce significant results, and the Pentagon appears to go on, as wasteful as ever. In this book, Peter Levine addresses why, despite a long history of attempted reform, the Pentagon continues to struggle to reduce waste and inefficiency. The heart of Defense Management Reform is three case studies covering civilian personnel, acquisitions, and financial management. Narrated with the insight of an insider, the result is a clear understanding of what went wrong in the past and a set of concrete guidelines to plot a better future.

"In Healing trauma, Dr. Levine gives you the personal how-to guide for using the theory he first introduced in his highly acclaimed work Waking the Tiger. Join him to discover: how to develop body awareness to "renegotiate" and heal traumas by "revisiting" them rather than reliving them; emergency "first-aid" measures for times of distress; and nature's lessons for uncovering the physiological roots of your emotions."--Publisher description

The Somatic Experiencing process, pioneered by Peter A. Levine, was met with skepticism 30 years ago. Today, it is dramatically changing the way that psychotherapists treat trauma through its natural, somatic release. In this original audio adaptation of their new book, Levine and pain relief expert Maggie Phillips apply their combined clinical experience to offer a complete series of guided practices that have helped thousands to alleviate and often completely recover from chronic pain even when conventional medical approaches alone have not been effective.

Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur, fondateur de la Somatic Experiencing, explore le lien fondamental qui existe entre la mémoire et le traumatisme. En effet si notre corps et notre cerveau n'avaient pas cette capacité de mémoire, le traumatisme n'existerait pas. Traumatisme et mémoire sont donc liés et comprendre le fonctionnement de cette interaction est fondamental dans le traitement du traumatisme. [Payot].

Schmerzen erfolgreich selbst lindern Wer unter chronischen Schmerzen leidet – möglicherweise nach Jahren von Behandlung, Medikamentierung und Operationen –, für den zählt nur eine Frage: Wie finde ich anhaltende Linderung? Der Bestseller-Autor und Trauma-Experte Peter A. Levine und die erfahrene Schmerztherapeutin Maggie Phillips zeigen in der überarbeiteten und aktualisierten Neuausgabe ihres erfolgreichen Buches, • wie die »Kampf«-Reaktion des Körpers auf Schmerzen beruhigt werden kann, • wie wir Angst, Frustration und Depression abbauen, die durch frühere Traumata intensiviert werden, und innere Resilienz und Selbstregulierungsfähigkeiten stärken, • wie Schmerzen gelindert werden, die in der Folge von Verletzungen, operativen Eingriffen, Gelenk- und Muskelproblemen, Migränen und anderen Problemen entstanden sind. Unabhängig davon, ob jemand eine Selbstbehandlungsmethode beginnen oder ein bestehendes Behandlungsprogramm erweitern möchte: »Vom Schmerz befreit« bietet erprobte Werkzeuge, wie körperliche und emotionale Blockaden gelöst werden können und anhaltende Linderung möglich wird. Mit 15 praktischen Übungen als Gratis-Audio-Angebot. »Brillant, praktisch und klug: ein enorm hilfreiches Buch. Ich kann es nicht genug empfehlen.« Jack Kornfield, Psychotherapeut und Mediationslehrer