Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory Audiobook (Free)

In Injury and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (originator from the Somatic Going through approach) tackles perhaps one of the most tough and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our thoughts? While some argue that traumatic recollections are unreliable and not useful, others demand that we completely must depend on memory space to make sense of past knowledge. Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and making use of case studies from his very own practice, Dr. Levine about Injury and Storage: Mind and Body within a Search for the Living History: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory suggests that you can find elements of truth in both camps. While acknowledging that storage can be respected, he argues that this only really useful memories are the ones that might originally seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the torso and not necessarily available by our mindful mind.

While much work continues to be done in neuro-scientific trauma studies to address ‘explicit’ traumatic recollections in the mind (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores ‘implicit’ memory space, and just how much of what we should think of mainly because ‘memory’ actually involves us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt feeling. By learning how exactly to better understand why complicated interplay of past and present, human brain and body, we can adjust our romantic relationship to past injury and transfer to a more well balanced, relaxed state to be. Written for trauma sufferers as well as mental healthcare practitioners, Stress and Memory is a groundbreaking take a look at how storage is constructed and exactly how influential thoughts are on our present state of being.