Waking the tiger : healing trauma : the innate capacity to transform overwhelming experiences
Levine, Peter A.1997
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In an age of Prozac and victimhood, we are not encouraged to take control of our behavioural ailments. This book, based on the authors' years of work with stress and trauma victims, aims to pass control back to the individual and away from the treatment centre. 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.
Main title:
Waking the tiger : healing trauma : the innate capacity to transform overwhelming experiences / Peter A. Levine ; with Ann Frederick.
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Imprint:
Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, c1997.
Collation:
274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Contents Introduction Prologue Giving the Body Its Due Finding a Method Body and Mind The Body As Healer How To Use This Book Section I: The Body As Healer 1. Shadows from a Forgotten Past Nature's Plan Why Look to the Wild? Trauma is Physiological It's About Energy 2. The Mystery of Trauma What is Trauma? Chowchilla, California Waking the Tiger: A First Glimmering 3. Wounds That Can Heal Trauma Is Not a Disease But a Dis-Ease 4. A Strange New Land Trauma is Not a Life Sentence The Strange New Land Trauma! What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us A Traumatized Person's Reality Get On with Your Life Who Is Traumatized? Causes of Trauma 5. Healing and Community Shamanic Approaches to Healing Somatic Experiencing( Acknowledging the Need to Heal Let Us Begin-Calling the Spirit Back to the Body 6. In Trauma's Reflection Medusa The Felt Sense Let the Body Speak Its Mind Using The Felt Sense to Listen to the Organism How the Organism Communicates Sensation and the Felt Sense Rhythm: All God's Children Got It 7. The Animal Experience The Animals Do It Too When the Reptilian Brain Speaks, Listen! One with Nature Attunement The Orienting Response Flee, Fight...or Freeze The Return to Normal Activity Animals as Teachers 8. How Biology Becomes Pathology: Freezing The Stage is Set Blame It on the Neo-cortex Fear and Immobility "As They Go In, So They Come Out" Like Death Itself It's a Cumulative Effect How Biology Becomes Pathology 9. How Pathology Becomes Biology: Thawing Nancy Re-examined: A First Step It's All Energy Marius: A Next Step Renegotiation Somatic Experiencing-Gradated Renegotiation Elements of Renegotiation Section II: Symptoms of Trauma 10. The Core of the Traumatic Reaction Arousal-What Goes Up Must Come Down Trauma is Trauma, No Matter What Caused It/ Exercises The Core of the Traumatic Reaction Hyperarousal Constriction Dissociation/ Exercises Helplessness And Then There Was Trauma 11. Symptoms of Trauma Symptoms of Trauma And Around and Around We Go Out of the Loop 12. A Traumatized Person's Reality The Threat That Can't Be Found Mrs. Thayer Can't Synthesize New Information/Can't Learn Chronic Helplessness Traumatic Coupling Traumatic Anxiety Psychosomatic Symptoms Denial Gladys What Trauma Survivors Expect The Last Turn Section III: Transformation and Renegotiation 13. Blueprint for Repetition Re-enactment July 5th, 6:30 in the Morning The Vital Role of Awareness Jack Patterns of Shock Without Awareness We Have No Choice Re-enactment Versus Renegotiation In the Theater of the body Post Script: How Far in Time and Space? 14. Transformation Two Faces of Trauma Heaven, Hell and Healing: A Middle Ground Let it Flow-Renegotiation Margaret What Really Happened? Renegotiation and Re-enactment What is Memory? Brain and Memory But It Seems So Real! But I'm Proud to Be a Survivor The Courage to Feel Desire and Healing With a Little Help from Our Friends 15. The Eleventh Hour: Transforming Societal Trauma The Animal Approach to Aggression Human Aggression Why Do Humans Kill, Maim and Torture One Another? Circle of Trauma, Circle of Grace, Transforming Cultural Trauma Epilogue or Epitaph? Nature Is No Fool Section IV: First Aid for Trauma 16. Administering (Emotional) First Aid After an Accident Following an Automobile Accident Scenario of Healing 17. First Aid for Children Delayed Traumatic Reactions First Aid for Accidents and Falls Resolving a Traumatic Reaction How Can I Tell If My Child Has Been Traumatized? Sammy-A Case History Traumatic Play, Re-enactment, and Renegotiation Key Principles for Renegotiating Trauma with Children Epilogue: Three Brains, One Mind Index
ISBN:
9781556432330
Dewey class:
616.8521616.852616.85210651616.852 LEVI
Local class:
616.8521 LEV
Language:
English
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BRN:
2012053
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