Bøger af Peter Levine

Saturn's Return: A Boomer's Memoir chronicles an upper middle-class son/itinerant musician's emotional, social and historical travelogue during America's heady decades of the 60's and 70's. Beginning shortly after postwar America reaches its economic and political zenith, when the America way of life can still be characterized as a middle-class patriarchy, the author recounts his struggle to pursue his aspirations against the vision of his father- a WWII Naval Reserve Captain-bent on shoehorning him into the military. After graduating high school in 1966 he heads off to Boston University, having enlisted in the Naval Reserve in a flawed compromise. The popular opposition to the war among the young is increasing and spreading throughout the country, drawing him and so many of his generation further away from the moorings of a middle-class life. Over the course of the next decade he pursues the life of an itinerant singer and guitarist until the fading of the counterculture directs him towards consolidating a more permanent identity and coming to terms with his family of origin.

El libro fundacional del creador de la terapia Somatic Experience para sanar el trauma, de vuelta a las librerías años después de quedar descatalogado.Esta obra, que estuvo descatalogada durante años y por fin vuelve a los lectores, ofrece una nueva y esperanzadora visión del trauma. Nos muestra al 'animal humano' como un ser único, provisto de una capacidad instintiva para sanar y también con una mente capaz de aprovechar esta capacidad innata. El Dr. Levine se pregunta y responde una cuestión muy interesante: ¿por qué los animales salvajes que suelen estar amenazados constantemente casi nunca quedan traumatizados? Comprender la dinámica que permite que un animal sea prácticamente inmune a sus síntomas, nos permitirá descubrir el misterio del trauma en los seres humanos.Esta obra nos da una nueva perspectiva sobre los síntomas del trauma y los pasos necesarios para curarlo, y nos ofrece una visión amplia de los sutiles pero poderosos impulsos que gobiernan nuestras respuestas ante los hechos abrumadores que pueden ocurrir en nuestras vidas. Para conseguirlo emplea una serie de ejercicios que ayudan a la persona a concentrarse en las sensaciones que le transmite el cuerpo. Porque es a través de una conciencia intensificada de esas sensaciones que podemos sanar.'Su enfoque terapéutico ofrece ayuda a muchas de las personas que sufren los desconcertantes síntomas del estrés postraumático y representa una fuente de esperanza', Bettina Hippel, terapeuta de Rolfing

"Levine's stories are riveting and subtle, shot through with a muted wisdom and palpable compassion." ?Publisher's Weekly Tom Mahoney is the golden boy everyone knew in school: good-looking, charming, an athlete---sought after by women, the envy of men. His success in life seems a foregone conclusion. In The Appearance of a Hero, Tom navigates the passage into adulthood, his story chronicled from every perspective but his own.Tom crisscrosses the country in search of direction, affecting the lives of everyone he meets. The recounting of his illicit affair with an older colleague reveals a young man unprepared for the emotional entanglements that come with love. Tom's father, Stuart, struggles to reconcile Tom's splendor with his shortcomings, as he watches his only child fail to live up to expectations. A young couple befriends an unsuspecting Tom, attempting to extract the very qualities others find so alluring about him. For an aging tennis partner, Tom serves as a lens through which the man is able to understand his early years of fatherhood. A girlfriend, enamored by Tom, attempts to isolate him, with shocking consequences. As the mythology surrounding Tom grows richer, Tom struggles to understand what exactly has eluded him, and in stories that grow increasingly desperate and heartbreaking, we begin to see that being an icon is not all it's cracked up to be. In this haunting short story collection, Peter Levine offers a portrait of a hero for the twenty-first century, a man whose legend is constructed not by himself but by those around him, all desperate for someone to idolize.

In easy-to-read sections, Stronger After Stroke introduces readers to leading-edge stroke recovery information while simplifying the process to attain specific benchmarks. Also included is a sample recovery schedule, a helpful glossary of frequently used stroke recovery terms, and a list of resources for readers to research emerging stroke recovery options.

A nonpartisan clarion call for civic renewal to restore American democracy

In this text, Peter Levine draws inspiration from Robert M. La Follete, Sr, and his circle, which include John Dewey, Jane Addams and Louis Brandeis. He argues that their ideal of fair and deliberative democracy is right for our time.