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His perspectives on trauma and lived experiences is dismissive at the very least, and harmful at worst. The suggestion that community played a role in healing trauma and that trauma is a natural reaction to bad experiences is also a important element. That a physical connection/grounding plays a role in restoring a wandering spirit (a shamanic image) is interesting. Mostly, I tend agree with Levine, looking at the trauma directly and reliving it is at best not helpful (his clinical practice strongly affirmed this view), at worst, only making matters worse.
The Tiger is the sort of book I very much like and rarely find. Humans are hard-wired to fear tigers, so this book will attract intense interest. In addition to tiger lore and scalding adventure, Vaillant shows us Russia’s far east and its inhabitants, their sometimes desperate lives interwoven with the economics of poaching and the politics of wildlife conservation. I was startled to learn about the zapovedniks and Russia’s primary place in global conservation. This is a book not only for adventure buffs, but for all of us interested in wildlife habitat preservation." - Annie Proulx This book helped to explain so much of why I'm having these seemingly irrational reactions to medical situations. That initial fainting experience was so traumatic for me at the time that I continue to react the same way over a decade later. Clearly I still have some healing to do!Doing voices and getting into character: Nathan and Lewis share their magical experiences of sharing stories with their babies
Though the tiger caused a disaster, we see the father takes it easy. I think I should learn a lesson or two from that story as a grown-up that frets over everything trivial thing. Some critics, notably the children’s author Michael Rosen, have suggested that the tiger in this story represents something in her past: Part natural history, part Russian history and part thriller; it tells a gripping and gory story of what it's like to stalk - and be stalked by - the largest species of cat still walking the Earth.House cats wish they were as big as tigers. (At least my cats do, or seem to, when there are three dogs, not just the one dog, in the house). The Tiger is the sort of book I very much like and rarely find. Humans are hard-wired to fear tigers, so this book will attract intense interest. But a tiger is a very big animal, with a simply enormous appetite. Although he sits very nicely at the kitchen table, and waits politely to be offered the sandwiches, the cakes, the buns and then the biscuits, each time he scoffs the lot! And when he is offered a cup of tea, he not only drinks it all, but also all the milk in the milk jug. Then he looks round to see what else he can find.
Along with what drives much of the illegal trade in tiger-based supplements. The brandname Viagra is derived from vyaaghra, the Sanskrit word for tiger. Hormones control our thinking. I like the way Levine spells out that trauma doesn't just occur from war and violence, but that completely benign situations, like medical procedures, can also traumatize. There is no rule to what can cause trauma. It's all about the subjective experience. I was bedazzled by Peter Brown's illustrations - they are just so fab! His colour palette is amazing and I really dig the graphical style. I love the story about how one should be wild now and then - the narrative is just something to make you smile. 9. Tigers by Patricia Janes Peter A.Levine, Ph.D. is the originator and developer of Somatic Experiencing® and the Director of The Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. He holds doctorate degrees in Medical Biophysics and in Psychology. During his thirty five-year study of stress and trauma, Dr. Levine has contributed to a variety of scientific and popular publications. By regularly bringing down large prey like elk, moose, boar, and deer, the tiger feeds countless smaller animals, birds, and insects, not to mention the soil. Every such event sends another pulse of lifeblood through the body of the forest."Key quote: "Vaillant’s tiger tale is nuanced." Note that the man-killing tiger was injured, and could no longer hunt its usual prey -- as is common in historic man-eaters. And tigers need a LOT of meat to survive a Siberian winter. You do not want to be charged by a hungry, 500 pound tiger! It's quite a story, and I recommend it with a few reservations. 3.7 stars, rounded up. The Tiger takes us on a journey to the raw edge of civilization, to a world of vengeful cats and venal men, a world that, in Vaillant's brilliant telling, is simultaneously haunting and enchanting. In a way, I'd say this book should not be read as a psychology book. It should be read as a magical manual, much as if you were reading Carlos Castaneda or, say, Silver RavenWolf (sorry, I just had to): To what extent are his insights only valid for him subjectively, and useless bullsh*t from an objective point of view? To what extent does my universe match the subjective world of the writer? Are some of his practices useful for my practice? This ancient, tenuous relationship between man and predator is at the very heart of this remarkable book. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters, and how early Homo sapiens may have fit seamlessly into the tiger’s ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator that can grow to ten feet long, weigh more than six hundred pounds, and range daily over vast territories of forest and mountain.
This book must be read by everybody who is interested in the conservation of wildlife. It takes you to the Russian wilderness to meet face-to-face with the Siberian tiger.Those are some of our ideas – but what about you? What do you love reading?Let us know by tweeting us @BookTrust using the hashtag #WhatToReadAfter! I have been meaning to return to Peter Levine's work since I was first introduced to him in one of my clinical classes during my MSW program. I remember being annoyed with his theory at the time, arguing with my therapist that it felt belittling to me, the idea that our deepest felt emotions can be boiled down to our "reptilian brain". At the time, I don't think I really even understood it. At the time, I was reading it in reference to working with other people, not myself. My walls were high against any mention that my anxiety had deeper roots beyond my own rationalizing. Psychologists are a bunch of bone shakers. All of the evidence we have comes from self-report, which can take a 180 degree turn based on whether the participant ate breakfast that day, and brain imaging, which is dudes in labcoats looking at a grainy photo and saying "that part seems to be... activated." It's the least scientific of all scientific disciplines, so to deride an active practitioner, a dude in the trenches of trauma therapy, putting his ass on the line every session and risking his own secondhand traumatization, for being unscientific... it's like standing up at the "Speak now or forever hold your peace" part of a wedding and going: "This marriage is a sham, for God cannot be proven!"
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