Recommended books
- Healing Trauma – A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of your Body by Dr Peter A. Levine – a valuable introduction to SE®
- Waking the Tiger by Dr Peter Levine – the quintessential SE® book
- In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Dr Peter A. Levine - enriched with a coherent theoretical framework and compelling case examples, the book elegantly blends the latest findings in biology, neuroscience and body-oriented psychotherapy to show that when we bring together animal instinct and reason, we can become more whole human beings.
- The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild - detailed, well written and comprehensive explanation of what happens to the body and mind in trauma
- Crash Course – A Self-Healing Guide to Auto Accident Trauma & Recovery by Diane Poole Heller
- Trauma Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience by Peter A. Levine and Maggie Kline - offers simple but powerful tools to keep children safe from danger and to help them “bounce back” after feeling scared and overwhelmed. It sends a lifeline to parents who wonder how they can help their worried and troubled children now.
- Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing by Peter A. Levine and Maggie Kline - an essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
Recommended short video
- A Summary of Trauma & Somatic Experiencing® by Peter A. Levine, PhD - Peter uses his famous "Slinky" presentation to demonstrate the effects of trauma on the nervous system, and his philosophy of treating trauma; which involves slowly releasing (or titrating) this compressed fight-or-flight energy a bit at time to give the individual the ability to reintegrate it back into their nervous system.
Recommended websites
- The official Somatic Experiencing® website
- The Somatic Experiencing blog - by Peter Levine's team
- Professional training in SE® in the UK
- SE® work with tsunami survivors, Tamil Nadu, India
