What Resets Our Nervous System After Trauma
What Resets Our Nervous System After Trauma Peter Levine, PhD Dr. Levine: When I first started developing my approach to trauma, I noticed how many different kinds of seemingly ordinary events…
Trauma – The Vortex of Violence
Trauma - the Vortex of Violence By Dr. Peter A. Levine Teddy ''Daddy, daddy, let it go, let it go....Please don't kill it....let it go.'' These are the terrified screams…
Thailand Tsumani Surveys – Summary of Results
Thailand Tsumani Surveys – Summary of Results Foundation for Human Enrichment Analysis prepared July 2006 The following report summarizes the results from surveys administered to 66 Tsunami survivors. Of these…
Somatic Therapy Treatment Effects with Tsunami Survivors
Published in Traumatology, Vol. 14, No. 3, September 2008. The journal version of the article can be ordered in electronic or hard copy format from http://articleworks.cadmus.com/buy?c=1143143&p=1168488&fromsearch=true. Somatic Therapy Treatment Effects…
Memory, Trauma & Healing
Memory, Trauma & Healing by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. The brain's function is to choose from the past, to diminish it, to simplify it, but not to preserve it. --…
Understanding Childhood Trauma
Understanding Childhood Trauma Dr. Peter A. Levine Although anyone - regardless of strength, capability, or experience - can be traumatized by a threatening event, those at greatest risk are infants…
Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma
Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma by: Dr. Peter A. Levine Trauma is a Fact of Life A single brief exposure to an overwhelming event can throw a normally functioning individual…
Preventing and Healing the Sacred Wound of Sexual Molestation
Preventing and Healing the Sacred Wound of Sexual Molestation by Dr. Peter A. Levine Unless you have personally experienced the deep wound of sexual trauma, it may be difficult to…
The Neurophysiology of Dissociation and Chronic Disease
The Neurophysiology of Dissociation and Chronic Disease Robert C. Scaer Abstract Dissociation as a clinical psychiatric condition has been defined primarily in terms of the fragmentation and splitting of the…
SE™ in the Treatment of Automobile Accident Trauma
Somatic Experiencing® in the Treatment of Automobile Accident Trauma by Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D. and Larry Heller, Ph.D. Originally published in US Association for Body Psychotherapy Journal, vol.3, #2, 2004,…