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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 and young children. Johnny, age five, proudly riding his first bicycle, hits loose gravel and careens into a tree. He is momentarily knocked unconscious. Getting […]

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 into an abyss of emotional and physical suffering. Whether or not a person rebounds from this dark edge of near insanity or tumbles more deeply […]

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 imagine how complex, confusing, and varied the long-term effects can be. This is especially true when the molestation was perpetrated by someone the child trusted […]

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 mind, and perception of the self and the body. Its clinical manifestations include altered perceptions and behavior, including de-realization, depersonalization, distortions of perception of time, […]

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, pp.42-52. www.usabp.org Abstract This article on the role of the body in auto accident recovery describes some of the basic elements of Somatic Experiencing® developed […]

Treating tsunami survivors for trauma

© Journal of holistic healthcare _ Volume 2 Issue 4 November 2005 Treating tsunami survivors for trauma The effectiveness of a short-term psycho-physiological trauma treatment approach among South Asian tsunami survivors Raja Selvam Ph.D. I am on the faculties of Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing professional training programmes and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. I lecture […]

The Trauma Vortex in Action In the Middle East

The Trauma Vortex in Action in the Middle East by Gina Ross Much has been written about understanding the Middle East crisis in the context of history, culture, and political and religious environment. Virtually nothing has been written about understanding it in the context of psychological trauma, which explains the seeming intractability of the conflict. […]