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A review by timverbergt
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter A. Levine
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2,5/5
Very interesting concept and way of thinking about this problem. What really bombs this book is the tendency of extreme repetition. The general thesis of this book is repeated over and over again without any real new contributions. When it (finally) arrives at the treatment part of the book, the author loses his clear style of writing and seems to not be able to give a comprehensive description and step by step plan of how to treat trauma. I'm not suggesting he would be able to formulate a treatment plan that would work for everyone, but even the basic steps and methods are vague and unclear.
Somatic experiencing has merit, but you're better of learning it from another source than this book. Which is a shame, because the author invented it.
Very interesting concept and way of thinking about this problem. What really bombs this book is the tendency of extreme repetition. The general thesis of this book is repeated over and over again without any real new contributions. When it (finally) arrives at the treatment part of the book, the author loses his clear style of writing and seems to not be able to give a comprehensive description and step by step plan of how to treat trauma. I'm not suggesting he would be able to formulate a treatment plan that would work for everyone, but even the basic steps and methods are vague and unclear.
Somatic experiencing has merit, but you're better of learning it from another source than this book. Which is a shame, because the author invented it.