Waking the Tiger

Healing Trauma

De: Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick

Narrado por: Chris Sorensen

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: Why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The listener is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.

©1997 Peter A. Levine (P)2016 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Fascinating! Amazing! A revolutionary exploration of the effects and causes of trauma." (Mira Rothenberg, author of Children with Emerald Eyes)

Worst Narrator Ever!

The narrator for this book is REALLY annoying. It feels like he is totally disconnected from the text. He ends all of his sentences in one of three or four ways and every way sounds sarcastic. The book is a little dated but is otherwise ok. There are better books on trauma like van der Kolk.

Hugely important book. Worst narrator I’ve ever heard.

This book is important and for that reason I am willing to ignore the quality of the narration and instead focus on the content. But the narrator’s style is horrendous. He is smarmy and cheesy. For the life of me I can’t imagine how anyone heard his voice and said “yep, he’s our guy for this very very important book”. It makes no sense.

Content OK; hard to listen to performance

This is the first audiobook for me where the narration not helpful to comprehension or at least obtrusive. I've initially found the narration sing-songy and a consistent uplift at the end of every sentence distracting. I have gotten to chapter five and the content is keeping my interest, although the narration remains mildly annoying.

Narrator voice is distracting

The narrator has a mechanical and emotionally detached enunciation, distracting you from such an important and educational content.

Great book!!

This book was incredibly enlightening. It is a must read, in my opinion, especially for those who are affected by trauma and those who help people affected by traumas.

well worth the listen

narration was a little dry but the work was fascinating and eye opening. Learned a lot from it.

A life-changing book

I can't recommend it enough. The structure of the book is great and it has a some verry good exercise. It explains so we'll how trauma effects the body and mind. I had tons of Aha! moments true this book.

Eye opening - helped make sense of life

Thank you Peter for this book. I’m a yoga teacher and this helped make sense of the release I have been seeing in clients from the connecting to their body and discharging. I wish every person especially parents would understand the stages of trauma you highlight so they can effectively move trauma to healings. The world is in need of this healing.

excellent material

the speech pattern of the reader was repetitive and somewhat annoying, but the material here was fantastic -speaking as a trauma survivor

Loved The Content Narration Is Horrible

I would listen to this book multiple times if the narrator’s voice was different. I learned much from the book and will read it again, not listen to it.