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Panic, Biology, and Reason: Giving the Body Its Due

By Peter A. Levine — 2003

My interest in the essential role played by bodily responses in the genesis and treatment of panic anxiety and trauma began quite accidentally in 1969. A psychiatrist, knowing of my interest in “mind/body healing”-a fledging arena at the time, had referred a young woman to see me. Nancy had been suffering from panic attacks for about two years.

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