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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Levine, Peter A., author.

Trauma and memory : brain and body in a search for the living past : a practical guide for understanding and working with traumatic memory / Peter A. Levine.

pages cm

Summary: “Discusses different types of memory formation, especially traumatic memory, and how somatic or body-based memory can be utilized in the therapeutic process”— Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-58394-994-8 (paperback) — ISBN 978-1-58394-995-5 (ebook)

1. Memory disorders. 2. Episodic memory. 3. Psychic trauma. 4. Post-traumatic stress disorder. I. Title.

BF376.L48 2015

153.1’3—dc23

2015023111