Waking the tiger : healing trauma: the innate capacity to transform overwhelming experiences / Peter A. Levine ; with Ann Frederick.

By: Levine, Peter A [author].

Contributor(s): Frederick, Ann, 1961- [contributor].

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BookPublisher: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, [1997]Description: 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 155643233X (paperback).Subject(s): Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment

| Mind and body therapies

| Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Prevention

DDC classification: 616.8521

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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.

Includes index.

CIT Module COUN 9005 - Supplementary reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

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
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

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

From Chapter 3: Wounds That Can Heal When a young tree is injured it grows around that injury. As the tree continues to develop, the wound becomes relatively small in proportion to the size of the tree. Gnarly burls and misshapen limbs speak of injuries and obstacles encountered through time and overcome. The way a tree grows around its past contributes to its exquisite individuality, character, and beauty. I certainly don't advocate traumatization to build character, but since trauma is almost a given at some point in our lives, the image of the tree can be a valuable mirror. Although human beings have been experiencing trauma for thousands of years, it is only in the last ten years that it has begun to receive widespread professional and public attention... Excerpted from Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.