Title:
Waking the tiger : healing trauma : the innate capacity to transform overwhelming experiences / Peter A. Levine ; with Ann Frederick.
Author:
Levine, Peter A.
Publication Information:
Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, ©1997.
Call Number:
RC552.P67 L48 1997
Abstract:
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 innate 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.
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ISBN:
9781556432330
Physical Description:
274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Giving the body its due -- Shadows from a forgotten past -- The mystery of trauma -- Wounds that can heal -- A strange new land -- Healing and community -- In trauma's reflection -- The animal experience -- How biology becomes pathology : freezing -- How pathology becomes biology : thawing -- The core of the traumatic reaction -- Symptoms of trauma -- A traumatized person's reality -- Blueprint for repetition -- Transformation -- The eleventh hour : transforming societal trauma -- Administering (emotional) first aid after an accident -- First aid for children -- Three brains, one mind.
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