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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 703277" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Peter Levine wrote <u>Walking The Tiger</u>.</p><p></p><p>He is also expert in helping parents understand their children's trauma and support them to heal. One book by him that caught my eye is <u>Trauma through a child's eyes: awakening the ordinary miracle of healing</u>. Another that caught my attention is <u>In an unspoken voice</u> . Levine calls his work "somatic experiencing." He has PhD's in both medical biophysics I think it is and psychology.</p><p></p><p>There are videos of him speaking a bit, which I had never seen or heard. After listening I give him a lot of credibility. And the other guy too. This one:</p><p></p><p><u>The body keeps score</u> by the Von Bessel guy, I forgot to check the spelling of his name. He is an MD. From Belgium or Holland I think. Each of these men are highly, highly esteemed. They wrote the book, so to speak.</p><p></p><p>This would be a way for you and your husband to become the experts to help your child mobilize her own resources to heal. What could be better?</p><p></p><p>If you are interested in this approach, I would be happy to discuss the material with you and support you.</p><p></p><p>Let me describe a little bit the way of thinking, in a very basic way, because I know not too much: Trauma is held in the body and not released. And thereafter every scary thing that happens, re-awakens it and can be re-traumatizing. Thus PTSD. Not every victim of crime or traumatized vet gets PTSD or what they used to call battle fatigue. The thinking is that people who were traumatized as children, are retraumatized and do not have the same resilience as do other people. But this can change, by this approach.</p><p></p><p>The idea, and thus the title, <u>Walking the Tiger,</u> I think comes from the reality that animals are traumatized all of the time and there are no psychotherapists or Paxil or Prozac available to treat it. There are genetically transmitted mechanisms whereby animals (and primitive man) worked through the trauma by their daily activity: running, for example. Bilateral movement.</p><p></p><p>That is the little bit I remember. But now I am motivated to find the book somewhere in my house.</p><p></p><p>The beauty of this approach is it does not require the verbal skills, insight or maturation that talk therapy requires. And in my view talk therapy has not necessarily been so effective in treating traumatized people, although others may differ.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 703277, member: 18958"] Peter Levine wrote [U]Walking The Tiger[/U]. He is also expert in helping parents understand their children's trauma and support them to heal. One book by him that caught my eye is [U]Trauma through a child's eyes: awakening the ordinary miracle of healing[/U]. Another that caught my attention is [U]In an unspoken voice[/U] . Levine calls his work "somatic experiencing." He has PhD's in both medical biophysics I think it is and psychology. There are videos of him speaking a bit, which I had never seen or heard. After listening I give him a lot of credibility. And the other guy too. This one: [U]The body keeps score[/U] by the Von Bessel guy, I forgot to check the spelling of his name. He is an MD. From Belgium or Holland I think. Each of these men are highly, highly esteemed. They wrote the book, so to speak. This would be a way for you and your husband to become the experts to help your child mobilize her own resources to heal. What could be better? If you are interested in this approach, I would be happy to discuss the material with you and support you. Let me describe a little bit the way of thinking, in a very basic way, because I know not too much: Trauma is held in the body and not released. And thereafter every scary thing that happens, re-awakens it and can be re-traumatizing. Thus PTSD. Not every victim of crime or traumatized vet gets PTSD or what they used to call battle fatigue. The thinking is that people who were traumatized as children, are retraumatized and do not have the same resilience as do other people. But this can change, by this approach. The idea, and thus the title, [U]Walking the Tiger,[/U] I think comes from the reality that animals are traumatized all of the time and there are no psychotherapists or Paxil or Prozac available to treat it. There are genetically transmitted mechanisms whereby animals (and primitive man) worked through the trauma by their daily activity: running, for example. Bilateral movement. That is the little bit I remember. But now I am motivated to find the book somewhere in my house. The beauty of this approach is it does not require the verbal skills, insight or maturation that talk therapy requires. And in my view talk therapy has not necessarily been so effective in treating traumatized people, although others may differ. [/QUOTE]
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