In an Unspoken Voice

In An Unspoken Voice uses the author's experiences as a clinician and a student of comparative brain research to explore the nature and impact of trauma on the body and brain... Case study examples blend biology and body-oriented psychotherapy in a fine collection of insights highly recommended for college-level psychotherapy holdings. <br> --Midwest Book Review <br> In this masterpiece Peter Levine has captured the essence of trauma as residing in the 'unspoken voice' of our bodies. Combining a thorough study of animal ethology, brain research, and indigenous healing rituals with vast clinical knowledge, Levine provides a marvelous and original perspective on how trauma results in injuries that can be transformed and healed by attention to the natural healing powers of that reside deep within every human being. <br>--Bessel van der Kolk, MD, medical director and founder of the Trauma Center at Justice Ressource Institute, director of the National Complex Trauma Treatment Network, and professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine <br> With this book Peter Levine secures his position in the forefront of trauma healing, as theorist, practitioner, and teacher. All of us in the therapeutic community--physicians, psychologists, therapists, aspiring healers, interested laypeople--are ever so much richer for this summation of what he himself has learned. <br>--Gabor Mate, MD, author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction<br> <br> Peter Levine's work is visionary common sense, pure and simple. <br>--Laura Huxley, lifetime partner and collaborator of Aldous Huxley <br> Peter Levine's first book, Waking the Tiger, changed the world of trauma treatment: somatic therapy, specifically Somatic Experiencing(R), the name of the specific approach he developed, no longer alternative fringe practice, became a major player in the world of the mainstream psychotherapies. Like an anthropologist acquainting us with a differenta