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Trauma and Memory
- Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Psychology & Mental Health
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Are you experiencing physical or emotional symptoms that no one is able to explain? If so, you may be suffering a traumatic reaction to a past event, teaches Levine.
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- By Emily on 2020-05-27
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- By julie on 2018-02-15
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Kathy L. Kain and Stephen J. Terrell draw on 50 years of their combined clinical and teaching experience to provide this clear road map for understanding the complexities of early trauma and its related symptoms. Experts in the physiology of trauma, the authors present an introduction to their innovative somatic approach that has evolved to help thousands improve their lives. Synthesizing across disciplines - Attachment, Polyvagal, Neuroscience, Child Development Theory, Trauma, and Somatics - this book provides a new lens through which to understand safety and regulation.
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An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma from infancy through adolescence - what parents, educators, and health professionals can do. Rich with case studies and hands-on activities, Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes gives insight into children’s innate ability to rebound with the appropriate support and provides their caregivers with tools to overcome and prevent trauma.
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- By julie on 2018-02-15
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Internal Family Systems Therapy
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IFS reveals how the subpersonalities or "parts" of each individual's psyche relate to each other like members of a family, and how - just as in a family - polarization among parts can lead to emotional suffering. IFS originator Richard Schwartz and master clinician Martha Sweezy explain core concepts and provide practical guidelines for implementing IFS with clients who are struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, and other behavioral problems.
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- By mireille on 2019-08-27
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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.
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The Healing Trauma Summit: Volume 1
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- Written by: Peter A Levine PhD, Judith Blackstone PhD, Zainab Salbi, and others
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In a society that values independence, self-preservation, and individualistic thinking, we are missing the key to fulfillment: Connection through attachment. Simply, attachment is the way that we connect to each other. Improve your client's relationships by teaching them strategies to feel more connected reestablish trust, and restore positive emotions. Dr. Christina Reese, a recognized attachment and trauma professional, has created a comprehensive audio guide that explains attachment over a lifetime, and offers trauma-informed approaches to treat attachment at any age.
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Buy the book not the audio!
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Traumatic Stress
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Healing Developmental Trauma
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Yawn.
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- Written by: Richard C. Schwartz PhD
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a revolutionary method that allows us to meet and ally with the many distinct parts of our psyche. With Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, IFS founder Dr. Richard Schwartz reveals how this powerful system can serve us on the spiritual journey. In this six-session audio course, he offers innovative practices to help you heal and harmonize the wounded facets of your self - and in doing so, reconnect with the greater Self that is your true, divine nature.
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Great tools, great voice, will listen again!
- By Anonymous User on 2021-01-14
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Complex PTSD
- From Surviving to Thriving
- Written by: Pete Walker
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grew up in houses that were not homes-in families that were as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated, and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul, and body. This book is a practical guide to recovering from lingering childhood trauma. It is copiously illustrated with examples of the author's and his clients' journeys of recovering.
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I thought it was just me...
- By marge on 2019-08-28
Publisher's Summary
In Trauma and Memory, best-selling 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.
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- Ian McDonald
- 2018-11-11
Excellent
An excellent book, with so much interesting information. The hypothesis is so very compelling that I would recommend readers explore in their own lives.
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- julie
- 2018-08-02
Very good resource
Peter Levine has the ability to speak about trauma and its treatment in a manner that can be easily understood by clients.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-06
A Valuable Read
I think that this book is a must for anyone recovering from trauma. it has really helped me.
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- Jerry L. Cook
- 2019-12-07
What you need to know before buying this book
First, as noted by other reviewers, this book is most suited for clinicians and professionals who are already somewhat familiar with the terms from the book. At the beginning of this book it indicated that the book was also indicated that the pages would also essentially help those who wanted to better understand their own experience with trauma and memory; if the author (whom I greatly admire) ever reads my review, I would strongly recommend removing this assertion from his book. For those who want the bulk of this information in a self-improvement format, I can recommend a different (if not older) book by the same author, "Healing Trauma." Although the "Healing Trauma" book does not focus primarily on memory, it does provide a chapter on it toward the end. The exercises are also very simple and useful. Despite having a strong academic background and incredible interest in the trauma and memory connection, this book will need to be exchanged for another book that i feel I can connect to. IF you are not a clinician and you still think you'll like this book, I strongly recommend listening to the introduction and then skipping to chapter 5 (or so). The case studies in this book are great, but again the target audience is the clinician.
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- Mike
- 2018-11-03
great info about trauma!
I really enjoyed hearing about the clinical perspective and analysis of trauma. mental health is something I have personally struggled with for many years and I have recently started uncovering the traumas that have plagued my life since childhood. this book has helped me understand these traumas a bit more and how traumatic memories can change as the body tries to cope with and process what had happened. I now have an appointment with a therepist who specializes in traumas in the near future.
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- MNMNBK
- 2019-05-20
Should have said it was intended for clinicians
The overall review of this book was thankfully helpful. I was familiar with clinical or scientific knowledge from college but this is not a self help guide, but it is intended more for clinicians This was not indicated on the information before I downloaded it
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- Michele A Kwiatkowski
- 2019-03-30
Not a book for the non-professional
Not a fault of the book, I just expected something for the average individual rather than professionals in the field. It presumes you are familiar with terminology and practices used in the field of trauma.
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- Moni
- 2018-01-20
Gifted
Dr. Levine has a GIFT and I am so glad he is sharing it with others!!! I hope his techniques become widely used. In light of the recent elections, I didn’t like the political reference early on. I’m a female working in a male dominated field and I am SO sick of hearing Hillary is a liar. We all lie and studies have shown lies increase when social acceptance is on the line. I don’t think Dr. Levine meant to be sexist. This is my hang up so I kept listening... The potential for healing is enormous, I suffered greatly as a child and see the huge potential for Dr. Levine’s techniques. But was turned off once again to hear him say most rape can be worded of by a WOMAN firmly saying NO. Yikes! That sounds too close to saying rape is a women’s problem. I respect Dr. Levine and his work! I hope to learn his techniques so I can help others one day. I obviously have a lot of work to do.
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- Lawyer
- 2019-03-29
Dr. Levine is amazing
As a therapist that specializes in trauma, this makes so much sense. I’ve seen him work and his gifts are amazing! His interactions resonate genuine empathy and compassion that is felt by an observer. The book discusses much of what I’ve seen in my work for nearly 20 years and wish I’d had an opportunity to learn more about him earlier. Sadly, it took life experience, clinical observations ans further exposure about somatic therapy for me to appreciate all that it involves. I’ve already ordered his other books and look forward to participating in his further training events. Laura Lawyer, MSW, LCSW- Fayetteville, NC
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- Amber
- 2020-10-05
No, you do NOT need to be a clinician!
I almost didn't get this book and I am so glad I ignored the reviews saying it's not really accessible for the general public. Those reviews are wrong. This book is full of great information about how memory and trauma work. Some of that information includes terms and words specific to psychiatry and neurology but nothing is beyond the layman's ability to learn. Everything in the book can be looked up on the internet, and you may have to exercise some patience and concentration to follow what is discussed, but if you truly want learn about these issues you absolutely can. I'm not a medical specialist either, but I was able understand and appreciate this book. Just take it slow, one bite at a time, and allow your mind time to digest each piece before moving on.
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- Becca Powell
- 2019-10-04
Enlightening, motivating, clinically useful
Levine's work has transformed the way I practice psychotherapy, and thus far, this book has been the best encapsulation of relevant material related to implicitly held traumatic memory and has added the most useful understanding of how trauma treatment works when it works and why it doesn't when it doesn't. I would imagine that whether or not the reader is a psychotherapist, if they have any degree of scientific interest in the topic of trauma, they would find this book accessible and enlightening. This is a great read for anyone who may be on a journey to obtain greater self-discovery, to reach a deeper understanding of a suffering loved one, or to pursue clinical effectiveness in their work as a helping professional.
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- Sandy Cornet
- 2020-01-05
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monotone. I struggled at times to pay attention due to being monotone. great information though.
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- Jamie Dolan
- 2020-09-27
Still accessible even if aimed at a professional.
It's very interesting information and it is clearly aimed at a more professional audience but a non-professional is definitely able to make sense of this material . They may have to extrapolate or look up the meaning of a couple specific terms in the context they are used. He discusses a variety of subjects related to how memories are formed how they're retrieved possible ways we can influence those memory formations and retrievals either through organic techniques with therapy, possible techniques to manipulate those memories with drugs and some of the pitfalls of doing so. if you're looking at something that is non-technical in more directed towards self-help this is likely not your best bet.
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- Genevieve Begue
- 2020-02-07
Excellent audiobook
Peter Levine's knowledge is just invaluable! Somatic Experiencing is changing the traditional therapeutic approach with a priceless tool, the knowledge of our body.