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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

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Trauma and Memory

Written by: Peter A. Levine Ph.D., Bessel A. van der Kolk - introduction M.D.
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
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Designed for psychotherapists and their clients, Peter Levine's latest best-seller continues his groundbreaking exploration of the central role of the body in processing—and healing—trauma.

With foreword by Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score

In Trauma and Memory, bestselling 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. Mental Health Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Psychotherapy Health Human Brain Thought-Provoking Trauma Memory
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The person narrating should do work for more trauma books. He has a very soothing voice. Some voices narrating don’t sound like an empathic voice nor do they sound like they understand trauma to narrate these types of books but Rick Adamson is awesome. I’m listening for the 3rd time!!!

Very good narration

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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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Peter Levine has the ability to speak about trauma and its treatment in a manner that can be easily understood by clients.

Very good resource

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I think that this book is a must for anyone recovering from trauma. it has really helped me.

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