Loading profile…
Loading profile…
Book
Peter A. Levine · 1997
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
Trauma is stored in the body as thwarted survival energy, and healing means completing those interrupted animal responses.
trauma-and-survival
A twig snaps. Instantly, the deer are alert ready to flee. Deeming it insignificant, they return to leisurely chewing — completing the cycle.
WKTT-RC-062We move directly from arousal into immobility and helplessness, bypassing our other emotions and completing none of our defenses.
WKTT-RC-099embodiment
The felt sense is billions of times more sophisticated than the most powerful computers — awareness, sensation, subtlety, variety, and rhythm.
WKTT-RC-054We can surrender to the currents of our feelings, which include trembling and other spontaneous discharges of energy — renegotiating trauma.
WKTT-RC-077self-and-identity
Unresolved trauma forces us to repeat what we have done before. The key to transforming trauma is moving slowly toward flexibility and spontaneity.
WKTT-RC-129If the instinctive urge to discharge intense survival energy is thwarted, the function of the emotional and rational brain systems is profoundly altered.
WKTT-RC-1096 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
Reader resonance signals for text sources are not wired to this view yet.
Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible
The Role of Self-Concept in Predicting the Success of Academically and Financially Disadvantaged Students within Higher Education Opportunity Programs
The Content of Religious Instruction: A Social Science Approach
Henry and June
The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Classic Stories
Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence
Beloved
The Swimming-Pool Library