Peter Levine, author of the bestselling Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, which has sold over a million copies, offers his own story of trauma and healing in his latest book, An Autobiography of ...

Years ago, my wife and I were mugged at gunpoint in Washington, D.C., on our way home from a late dinner. More recently, I was randomly assaulted as I walked home from work. These violent and ...

Psychologist Levine (Waking the Tiger) discusses in this stark if disjointed memoir how surviving sexual assault shaped his practice. “The writing of these pages was originally meant to serve as a ...

This post is part of a series on adverse childhood experiences. Read the other parts here. Peter Levine, Ph.D., is a pioneering trauma therapist and theorist. In his classic work, In an Unspoken Voice ...

“Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering." - Peter Levine. Trauma is often thought of as a single incident, ...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been a de facto standard of care within psychotherapy for the last 30 years. Certainly, CBT has shifted and changed over the years—particularly with the ...