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SomaShare: This free app provides tools for somatic exercises, trauma-informed practices, and mini-courses, as well as a communal space to support people in deep healing and transformation. How ...
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a form of alternative therapy aimed at treating trauma and stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The primary goal of SE is to modify the trauma-related stress response through bottom-up processing.
What Somatic Experiencing aims to do is bring awareness to the body and, ultimately, release trauma, which practitioners believe is stored in the nervous system. Blackman uses various approaches ...
Peter Alan Levine (born 1942) [citation needed] is an American psychotraumatologist, biophysicist and psychologist.As a psychotherapist, he offers lectures, advanced training and seminars on Somatic Experiencing (SE) he founded worldwide.
Somatic psychology or, more precisely, "somatic clinical psychotherapy" is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on somatic experience, including therapeutic and holistic approaches to the body. It seeks to explore and heal mental and physical injury and trauma through body awareness and movement.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma is a self-help book by American therapist Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederick published in 1997. It presents a somatic experiencing approach which it says helps people who are struggling with psychological trauma.
An early precursor of the somatic movement in Western culture was the 19th-century physical culture movement. This movement sought to integrate movement practices, or "gymnastics", related to military and athletic training; medical treatment; and dance. [7] Many physical culture practices were brought to the US. [8]
Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a form of short-term psychotherapy developed through empirical, video-recorded research by Habib Davanloo. [1]The therapy's primary goal is to help the patient overcome internal resistance to experiencing true feelings about the present and past which have been warded off because they are either too frightening or too painful.