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	Full Title:	Waking the Tiger Healing Trauma
	Author(s):	Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
	Publishing / Edition:	North Atlantic Books, 2025

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Body and Mind
Finding a Method
The Body As Healer
How To Use This Book

Chapter 1.

Nature's Plan
Why Look to the Wild? Trauma is Physiological
It's About Energy

Chapter 2.

What is Trauma?
Chowchilla, California
Waking the Tiger: A First Glimmering

Chapter 3.

Trauma Is Not a Disease But a Dis-Ease

Chapter 4.

Trauma is Not a Life Sentence
The Strange New Land
Trauma!
What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us
A Traumatized Person's Reality
Get On with Your Life
Who Is Traumatized?
Causes of Trauma

Chapter 5.

Shamanic Approaches to Healing
Somatic Experiencing
Acknowledging the Need to Heal
Let Us Begin - Calling the Spirit Back to the Body

Chapter 6.

Medusa
The Felt Sense
Let the Body Speak Its Mind
Using The Felt Sense to Listen to the Organism
How the Organism Communicates
Sensation and the Felt Sense
Rhythm: All God's Children Got It

Chapter 7.

The Animals Do It, Too
When the Reptilian Brain Speaks, Listen!
One with Nature
Attunement
The Orienting Response
Flee, Fight...or Freeze
The Return to Normal Activity
Animals as Teachers

Chapter 8.

The Stage is Set
Blame It on the Neo-cortex
Fear and Immobility
"As They Go In, So They Come Out"
Like Death Itself
It's a Cumulative Effect
How Biology Becomes Pathology

Chapter 9.

Nancy Re-examined: A First Step
It's All Energy
Marius: A Next Step
Renegotiation
Somatic Experiencing - Gradated Renegotiation
Elements of Renegotiation

Chapter 10.

Arousal - What Goes Up Must Come Down
Trauma is Trauma, No Matter What Caused It / Exercises
The Core of the Traumatic Reaction
Hyperarousal
Constriction
Dissociation / Exercises
Helplessness
And Then There Was Trauma

Chapter 11.

Symptoms
And Around and Around We Go
Out of the Loop

Chapter 12.

The Threat That Can't Be Found
Mrs. Thayer
Can't Synthesize New Information / Can't Learn
Chronic Helplessness
Traumatic Coupling
Traumatic Anxiety
Psychosomatic Symptoms
Denial
Gladys
What Trauma Survivors Expect
The Last Turn

Chapter 13.

Re-enactment
July 5th, 6:30 in the Morning
The Vital Role of Awareness
Jack
Patterns of Shock
Without Awareness We Have No Choice
Re-enactment Versus Renegotiation
In the Theater of the Body
Postscript: How Far in Time and Space?

Chapter 14.

Two Faces of Trauma
Heaven, Hell, and Healing: A Middle Ground
Let it Flow - Renegotiation
Margaret
What Really Happened?
Renegotiation and Re-enactment
What is Memory?
Brain and Memory
But It Seems So Real!
But I'm Proud to Be a Survivor
The Courage to Feel
Desire and Healing
With a Little Help from Our Friends

Chapter 15.

The Animal Approach to Aggression
Human Aggression
Why Do Humans Kill, Maim, and Torture One Another?
Circle of Trauma, Circle of Grace, Transforming Cultural Trauma
Epilogue or Epitaph?
Nature Is No Fool

Chapter 16.

Following an Automobile Accident
Scenario of Healing

Chapter 17.

Delayed Traumatic Reactions
First Aid for Accidents and Falls
Resolving a Traumatic Reaction
How Can I Tell If My Child Has Been Traumatized?
Sammy - A Case History
Traumatic Play, Re-enactment, and Renegotiation
Key Principles for Renegotiating Trauma with Children

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