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Waking the tiger : healing trauma : the innate capacity to transform overwhelming experiences

Levine, Peter A1997
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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 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.
Author:
Levine, Peter A, authorFrederick, Ann, contributor
Imprint:
Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [1997]©1997
Collation:
274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Partial contents: 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.
ISBN:
9781556432330 (paperback)155643233X (paperback)
Dewey class:
616.8521616.852
Language:
English
BRN:
761557
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