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Origin of Somatic Experiencing®

By Peter A. Levine — 2012

In this 5-minute video, founder of Somatic Experiencing, Dr. Peter Levine discusses how he came to create his powerful approach to trauma

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Healing from Trauma: A Survivor’s Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life

While there are many different approaches to healing trauma, few offer a wide range of perspectives and options.

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Jasmin Lee Cori
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Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Treat PTSD Caused by Racism, Discrimination: Researchers

Williams is the co-lead author of a recent retrospective study that found those who tried doses of psilocybin (more commonly known as magic mushrooms), LSD, or MDMA (the pure substance found in Ecstasy or Molly) reported a decrease in trauma symptoms, depression and anxiety after 30 days.

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors.

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Bessel van der Kolk
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Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past—A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory

In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr.

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Peter A. Levine, Bessel van der Kolk (foreword)
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Veterans Use Creative Forces to Heal Invisible Wounds of War

How music and art therapies can help military service members.

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Richard Sima
2021
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Virtual Reality Therapy Plunges Patients Back Into Trauma. Here Is Why Some Swear by It.

An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis.

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Dani Blum
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War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation’s Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

War and PTSD are on the public’s mind as news stories regularly describe insurgency attacks in Iraq and paint grim portraits of the lives of returning soldiers afflicted with PTSD.

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Edward Tick
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The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms

PTSD is an extremely debilitating condition that can occur after exposure to a terrifying event.

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Mary Beth Williams, Soili Poijula
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The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.

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George A. Bonanno
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The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook: Coming Through Trauma Wiser, Stronger, and More Resilient

People who experience trauma often struggle with its effects, but many men and women have found meaning in their traumatic event and now experience life differently.

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Richard G. Tedeschi, Bret A. Moore
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