Trauma following automobile accidents can persist for weeks, months, or longer. Symptoms include nervousness, sleep disorders, loss of appetite, and sexual dysfunction. In Crash Course, Diane Poole Heller and Laurence Heller take readers through a series of case histories and exercises to explain and treat the health problems and trauma brought on by car accidents.

An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence--what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.

Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents such as auto accidents, medical procedures, divorce, or even falling off a bicycle. At the core of this book is the understanding of how trauma is imprinted on the body, brain, and spirit, resulting in anxiety, nightmares, depression, physical illnesses, addictions,...

Reversing Chronic Pain offers a dynamic framework for joining body and mind to speed the healing of traumatic pain from the body level up. Each chapter presents a body-centered skill set that can be mastered through a broad menu of practice exercises. The resulting interlinked somatic building blocks help readers shift from physical pain to body awareness, and from unstoppable suffering to heartfelt connection and peace.
Building on the AIDS cocktail approach that reflects the fact that chronic pain is complex and no one tactic is likely to solve the problem, renowned expert Maggie...

The number of anxious, depressed, hyperactive and withdrawn children is staggering and still growing Millions have experienced bullying, violence (real or in the media), abuse or sexual molestation. Many other kids have been traumatized from more ordinary ordeals such as terrifying medical procedures, accidents, loss and divorce. "Trauma-Proofing Your Kids" sends a lifeline to parents who wonder how they can help their worried and troubled children now. It offers simple but powerful tools to keep children safe from danger "and" to help them bounce back after feeling scared and overwhelmed....

**Unraveling Trauma in the Body, Brain and Mind a Revolution in Treatment**
In this culmination of his life s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche. "In an Unspoken Voice "is based on the idea that trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate...

Traumasymptome sind vor allem blockierte Energie. Sie lassen sich daher über den Körper weit besser als über die Seele heilen so die revolutionäre Erkenntnis des großen Traumatherapeuten Peter A. Levine. Erstmals ermöglicht dieser Ratgeber, seine bahnbrechende Methode in Selbstanwendung zu nutzen. 12 Übungen aus dem Buch finden Sie auf der beiliegenden CD (gesprochen von Jörg Zimmer). Erdung und Zentrierung, Abbau von übermäßiger Aktivierung und Rückkehr in die innere Balance werden mit Hilfe dieser angeleiteten Übungen möglich.

Dieser Elternratgeber hilft, Kinder vor seelischen Verletzungen zu bewahren und im Ernstfall nach schlimmen Erlebnissen zu unterstützen. Einfach umsetzbare Rituale, Spiele und Alltagsideen stärken Selbstvertrauen und Widerstandskraft. Der bekannte Traumaexperte Dr. Peter A. Levine sensibilisiert Eltern dafür, dass nicht nur Erfahrungen von Gewalt oder Katastrophen traumatisieren können. Auch erschreckende medizinische Eingriffe, Verlusterfahrungen wie Scheidung oder Tod oder auf dem Rummelplatz verloren zu gehen können tiefe Spuren hinterlassen, die Kinder jahrelang belasten. §" ein...

Ein Fahrradunfall, der Biss eines aggressiven Hundes, eine notwendige Operation oder die unmittelbare Erfahrung von Gewalt können bei Kindern traumatisierende Folgen haben. Gut, wenn Eltern, Erzieher, Lehrer, Ärzte und Therapeuten wissen, was dann zu tun ist.§§Peter A. Levine zeigt, dass Kinder die Fähigkeit haben, belastende Erlebnisse zu verarbeiten, wenn sie von Erwachsenen liebevoll unterstützt werden. Schritt für Schritt beschreibt er: §- Was ist ein Trauma?§- Wodurch kann es in einem Kind ausgelöst werden?§- Welche erkennbaren Symptome gibt es?§- Wie beeinflusst ein...

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...