'In Trauma and Memory, Peter Levine provides insight into how memories and the brain circuits involved in maintaining these memories empower trauma to influence how we think, feel, and interact. Levine has been a heroic pioneer in explaining how the damaging emotional memories associated with trauma are locked in our body. His paradigm-shifting intervention model, Somatic Experiencing, has been at the forefront of clinical interventions focused on moving trauma-induced implicit feelings, locked in the body, into an explicit understanding. Levine explains how the intransigent and omnipotent power of the implicit memories of trauma can be diffused and transformed.' -- Stephen W. Porges, PhD, author of The Polyvagal Theory

'Memory has many layers, and Peter Levine has contributed his own unique and powerful way of thinking about how we can understand these systems and optimize their unfolding after trauma. This book offers clinical wisdom drawn from decades of direct experience, demonstrating how a clinician with focused attention and essential timing can move unresolved, non-integrated memories into a resolved, integrated form that enables a coherent narrative to emerge and the individual to become liberated from the prisons of the past.' --Daniel J. Siegel, MD, author of Mindsight

'Only after we become capable of standing back, taking stock of ourselves, reducing the intensity of our sensations and emotions, and activating our inborn physical defensive reactions can we learn to modify our entrenched maladaptive automatic survival responses and, in doing so, put our haunting memories to rest.' -- Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body keeps the Score

'In yet another seminal work Peter Levine here deconstructs traumatic memory, making it accessible tohealing and transformation. He helps us therapist or client move from a limiting past to where we belong: the empowered present.' --Gabor Mate, MD, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

'Arguably, much of our lives are spent at the mercy of the automatic brain; this is onlyaccentuated for those who have experienced severe trauma. In writing with such depth andinsight about the psychobiological dynamics of procedural memory, master therapist PeterLevine offers therapists important tools for the transformation of traumatic memory. Moreover, the writing and rich examples make this book accessible so that professionals andnonprofessionals alike can benefit from its wisdom.' --Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, author of Wired for Love; founder of the PACT Institute

'With this book, Dr. Levine has made another significant contribution to the treatment of trauma. Drawing on established neuroscience he explains, in clear and accessible terms, the various kinds of memory, their neurological bases, and their role in the treatment of trauma. This book is invaluable for clinicians wishing to improve their skills, laypeople wanting a deeper understanding of the way the mind and brain work to create and heal trauma, and scientists looking to understand the implications of modern neuroscience for the treatment of trauma by the body-oriented psychotherapies.' -- Peter Payne and Mardi Crane-Godreau, PhD, researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College"

Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing(r), a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. Levine's bestselling book "Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma" has been translated into twenty-two languages. Levine's original contribution to the field of Body Psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). For further information on Dr. Levine's trainings, projects, and literature, visit www.traumahealing.com and www.somaticexperiencing.com.