Peter A. Levine , PhD, b. 1942, is an American psycho-physiological trauma theorist, practician, educator, and director of non-profit educational and research organization dedicated to the worldwide healing and prevention of trauma, The Foundation for Human Enrichment.
Levine's psycho-physiological trauma theory is informed by what biologists (ethologists) call the immobility response , a survival enhancing fixed action pattern evolved in prey animals which is triggered by the perceived imminence of being killed by a predator.
He also is the originator of "Somatic Experiencing" method.
Published works
1999- Healing Trauma-Restoring the Wisdom of the Body, (CD produced by SoundsTrue).
1998- Trauma Therapy for Survivors of Torture, Jorgensen and Mathiasen eds.
1997- Waking the Tiger-Healing Trauma see Table of Contents , with Ann Frederick; North Atlantic Books
1997- Memory, Trauma, and Healing - article appeared in Spring 1997 of AHP Journal Perspective. Also in the Journal of Bio-Synthesis.
1994- Understanding Childhood Trauma, Mothering magazin
1991- The Body As Healer - Transforming Trauma and Anxiety, unpublished book manuscript,
1990- Revisioning Anxiety and Trauma, in Giving the Body Its Due (ed. Maxine Sheets Johnstone) S.U.N.Y. Press, 1991.
1989- The Substitute Tiger, An Integrative Bio-developmental Approach to Anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress.
1986- Chapter on Stress for Psychophysiology. Systems, Processes, and Application, A Handbook, eds. Coles, M., Donchin, E., and Porges, S., Guilford Press, 1986.
1983- Chronic Perinatal Stress as a Predisposing Factor in Autism and Childhood Psychosis, a Neurodevelopmental model suggesting strategies in treatment and prophylaxis. In: Symposium on Autism co-sponsored by University du Quebec a Montreal and San Francisco State University.
1982- Circle of Damage, Circle of Grace-Stress and Your Children. (Unpublished Manuscript).
1982- Stress, Neurobiology and Behavior Benchmark series on Human Physiology and Behavior, Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc. (Submitted for Publication).
1978- Stress and Vegetatherapy, Journal of Energy and Character-England (Fall and Winter)
1978- Infra-Uterinee Environment, Stress and Neurological Development, Journal of Behavioral Neuropsychiatry.
1977- Accumulate Stress Reserve Capacity and Disease, University Microfilm 77-15760, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1977- A Rhythm to Growing. - A Comment on the Body Approaches of Reich and Rolf and the Process of Adaptive Growth, in 'Life and Works of Wilhelm Reich', Viking Penguin.
1964- A Model for Flicker Fusion. Bell Telephone Company, Technical Memoranda.
External links
- Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma - an article by Peter A. Levine
- Chapter 1 'The Body As Healer' - excerpt from his book Waking the Tiger
- an interview with Peter Levine - with Michael Picucci
- another dancer's view on Levine's work - Karl Frost's introduction to the ideas of Peter Levine
- It Won't Hurt Forever:
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