Description: 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. Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. Levine's bestselling book Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma has been translated into twenty-two languages. Levine's original contribution to the field of Body Psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). For further information on Dr. Levine's trainings, projects, and literature, visit and
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EAN: 9781583949948
UPC: 9781583949948
ISBN: 9781583949948
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Book Title: Trauma and Memory : Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: a Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
Number of Pages: 206 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Topic: Alternative Therapies, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd), Psychotherapy / General, Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd)
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2015
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Health & Fitness, Self-Help, Psychology
Item Weight: 12.7 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Peter A. Levine
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
