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What Does a Slinky Have to do with Trauma?

Peter Levine, Ph.D.

One of the conundrums in trauma therapy is that as therapists, we are trained and usually very good at being empathic. And for many of our clients, we see great success with this.

But what do we do when our clients struggling with trauma and classic symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, chronic pain and stiffness don鈥檛 respond to kindness and soothing?

In this short video, Peter Levine, Ph.D.,聽explains how the body holds the energy of trauma and why we can't begin to process the emotional suffering until we first resolve trauma on the physiological level.




Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing庐, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work around聽the world. Levine鈥檚 original contribution to the field of Body-Psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Life Time Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP).




Topic: Trauma

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