Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
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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
imperceptibly holding your breath, tensing your muscles, or tightening your sphincters.
Peter A. Levine Phd • Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
In contrast to “ordinary” memories (both good and bad), which are mutable and dynamically changing over time, traumatic memories are fixed and static.
Peter A. Levine Phd • Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
creating novel experiences that contradict overwhelming feelings of helplessness and replacing them with a sense of ownership of physical reactions and sensations.
Peter A. Levine Phd • Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
can we observe our memories without changing them in the process of recall? The short answer is no.
Peter A. Levine Phd • Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
In order to be in touch with your self, you have to activate the anterior insula, the critical brain area responsible for how you feel about your body and your self.
Peter A. Levine Phd • Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
we are also capable of surviving, adapting to, and eventually transforming traumatic experiences.
Peter A. Levine Phd • Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
The resulting tyranny of the past interferes with the ability to focus effectively on both new and familiar situations.
Peter A. Levine Phd • Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
Through memory we maintain a thread of continuity by linking present with past.
Peter A. Levine Phd • Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
The “fixity” of imprints prevents us from forming new strategies and extracting new meanings.