Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Somatic experiencing integrates the tracking of Gendlin's "felt sense" into the model. [27] Levine has made use of Gendlin’s focusing approach in Somatic experiencing. "Dr. Levine emphasizes that the felt sense is the medium through which we understand all sensation, and that it reflects our total experience at a given moment." [28]
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. The book discusses inhibition and releasing a form of "energy".
Peter Levine may refer to: Peter A. Levine (born 1942), psychotherapist and creator of somatic experiencing. Peter J. Levine (born c. 1961), general partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Peter G. Levine (born 1960), American stroke researcher and educator. Peter Levine (born 1967), Tufts University political ...
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.
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]
Focusing is easiest to sense and do in the presence of a "listener"—either a Focusing trainer, a therapist, or a layperson trained in Focusing. [3] However, the practice can be done alone. Gendlin's book details the six steps of Focusing, [ 3 ] however it emphasizes that the essence of Focusing is not adhering to these steps, but following ...
Margaret Howe Lovatt (born Margaret C. Howe, in 1942) is an American former volunteer naturalist from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.In the 1960s, she took part in a NASA-funded research project in which she attempted to teach a dolphin named Peter to understand and mimic human speech.
Peter G. Levine (December 22, 1960 – January 8, 2022) was an American medical researcher, science educator, and authority on stroke recovery.He published articles on brain plasticity as it relates to stroke, with emphasis on modified constraint induced therapy, cortical reorganization, telerehabilitation, electrical stimulation, electromyography-triggered stimulation, mental practice ...