Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.

North Atlantic Books, Jul 7, 1997 - Self-Help - 288 pages

Now in 24 languages.

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.

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User Review  - CenterPointMN - LibraryThing

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 as well as an intellectual spirit to harness this ...

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User Review  - sueolson - Overstock.com

This is an excellent book on trauma. Peter Levine is well known for his work with trauma and the common physiology with animals. It is a trustworthy book easily understandable and very helpful. I use it for my clients and I use it for myself.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• The Body As Healer: 7
• The Mystery of Trauma: 23
• A Strange New Land: 41
• In Traumas Reflection: 65
• The Animal Experience: 85
• The Core of the Traumatic Reaction: 127
• Symptoms of Trauma: 145
• A Traumatized Persons Reality: 155
• Transformation and Renegotiation: 173
• First Aid for Trauma: 235
• First Aid for Children: 247
• Three Brains One Mind: 265

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
• Author: Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
• Contributor: Ann Frederick
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 1997
• ISBN: 155643233X, 9781556432330
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Healing / General; Psychology / Mental Health; Self-Help / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)