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Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

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Authors: Peter Levine, Ann Frederick
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8

ISBN: 155643233X
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8521
EAN: 9781556432330
ASIN: 155643233X

Publication Date: July 7, 1997
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Waking the Tiger September 12, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I work as a Certified Rolfer and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Peter Levine's genius is evident in this clear and concise piece of therapeutic literature. I am pleased to refer clients, friends, and colleagues to this book so that they might benefit from reading it. I have personally found the book to be of tremendous assistance in understanding the scientific basis of trauma as well as the psychospiritual significance of traumatic events.

5 out of 5 stars

Waking the Tiger August 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is an excellent book on recognizing and offering healing help to those who are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. More people should become familiar with the method which could be invaluable not only for people with depression, anxiety, lonliness, and so much more, but also as an incredible tool to help our returning vets, who are undoubtedly suffering from this disorder. It is a book that should be touted by all book sellers.

4 out of 5 stars

Excellent introduction to Somatic Experiencing August 10, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

Dr. Levin covers the energy stuckness involved in trauma and how to jump-start your natural healing process. Trauma is frozen energy as a result of being "too civilized" and denying or trying to not have your emotions in the moment. The book provides some useful understandings about how to release the stuck energy by sensing and moving your body and also getting in touch with positive mental energy. It also covers the genesis of trauma in more depth than many previous books on the subject. --Dr. Fred Gallo, author of Energy Tapping for Trauma: Rapid Relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Using Energy Psychology and Energy Tapping

5 out of 5 stars

Waking the Tiger June 14, 2007
0 out of 9 found this review helpful

great service, book arrived in excellent condition

2 out of 5 stars

A Roaring Wave? May 11, 2007
25 out of 44 found this review helpful

Peter Levine's book fundamentally ignores major aspects and driving forces that need to be addressed in our country and world regarding abuse, violence and resulting trauma, especially in regards to specific contributing factors of complex trauma and abuse. It seems as though Levine takes on minimal aspects in the healing of trauma, but fails to realize that trauma in some areas of this world are everyday occurrences and some types of more complex trauma will not be curtailed or remedied by such simple "healing methods". Levine also seems to completely deny that in many situations, the inherent fight/flight response in nature, especially those attached to memory, could just save your own life. br /br /Before you order this book, (or any book on trauma) you should be aware that most people who profess "professional ability to address and cure trauma" have apparently never really been a true victims of serious and/or complex trauma and apparently don't understand certain key elements of how SEVERE trauma and abuse affects individuals, as well as their community, workplace and families. The few examples Levine offers are extremely limited examples and seem to be part of a marketing objectives for his trademark invention of "somatic experiencing"...think he'll treat you for free without some sort of financial compensation?br /br /I will give him some credit for recognizing some aspects of the body and mind's innate natural responses as an aid to cure itself through its own accord, but he fails to exemplify or recognize that healing comes in varying degrees of personal capability, but this isn't anything new...it's what the body and mind does on its own through time, and especially with personal effort and awareness and a keen willingness to escape continued abuses and trauma! Levine's approach to "ignoring memory", stating that memory is even "false", is something that needs to be seriously considered, as memory is what often saves us from being victimized in the future by similar or repeated circumstances.br /br /This book seriously fails to recognize that certain people in life are inherently in a vulnerable position to begin with; (i.e. elderly people or foster children with no family, single property owners living next to abusive/dangerous/harassing and/or criminal neighbors, psychiatric and/or medical patients dependent on caregivers whose doctors seem to enjoy the facilitation of keeping them drugged to bypass deeper issues that could otherwise be resolved, but keep the financial wheels of the machine turning...and even worse, individuals whose families with powerful political and legal ties have victimized a family member through scapegoating, legal and financial malfeasance, even turning their backs on a particular family member they may have singled out and abused intentionally, while using him/her as a scapegoat for their own selfish, criminal agendas. Levine's book fails to address those aspects of even more serious or complex related trauma resulting from those types of victimizations through generally "uncontrollable" circumstances that cause horrible trauma on victims!br / br /It seems that this book addresses the more mundane types of trauma as with auto accidents or situations one CAN take measures to more easily prevent. He certainly overlooks some important key factors of the importance of memory and specific strategies for avoiding future abuses. Certainly the industry doesn't want you to know that you won't be treated or "cured", unless they are financially compensated for their efforts, and most can't or won't even address the deeper interrelated problems connected with continued abuses in the legal and justice systems, financial markets and businesses, government and political abuses of everyday life! br /br /Failing to bring to light these other aspects of abuse and potential for "preventing or healing them" is a serious flaw of this book. I think Levine needs to do much more research in this area before writing another book that can actually help those in such situations. br /br /This book does not adequately address situations where you are forced to live in dangerous conditions or address dangerous living conditions, such as bad neighborhoods, disaster prone areas, violent and manipulative agendas with political, legal and social problems that face society everyday that continue to be the root of trauma that is being completely ignored by professionals, including corruptions of law enforcement and the justice systems that fail to address root causes of trauma, abuse and violence that actual increase the adverse effects of related trauma! These are serious aspects of serious abuse issues in our society that are unfortunately being overlooked and/or ignored by policy makers, as well as "therapists." The latest legal, political, legal and psychological catchphrases of "spousal abuse", "child abuse", and others at least address some family issues, have some legal recourse, but what about political, legal, medical, financial, and justice system abuses? If your lawyer is screwing you, do you think your therapist will really tell you the truth of the political situation of the legal system, even if he/she is aware of it? It's doubtful! Most will claim they can't give you "legal advice." br /br /The only way this author could ever change my opinion after my extensive experiences with severe trauma, abuse, and serious corruption that has facilitated public illusions that I have witnessed in the mental health fields, legal fields, law enforcement fields, medical fields and many other professional fields bombarded with rampant and latent corruption, is for this author to address those absolute traumas perpetuated by those responsible, contributing entities, factors and root causes of trauma induced intentional victimization that Levine horribly fails to confront in this book. I personally know what kind of guts it takes to be willing to be hated for the truth...br /br /It makes me wonder if the "rave reviews" aren't the undertakings of fellow members of academia, or if they are from those who are not fully capable of addressing abuse, absent of self-serving agendas.

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