BORN
February 19,1942
DEGREES
B.S. University of Michigan, 1964: Physics Engineering; and Minors in Mathematics and Psychology.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1976: Department of Medical and Biological Physics: Group in Biophysics (interdisciplinary Program in Physical Biology; Life Science, Neurophysiology and Psychology.)
Ph.D. International College, Los Angeles, 1977; Independent Directed Tutorial, Psychology.
POSITIONS
1999-Member of Task Force, Institute of World Affairs, Psychologists for Social Responsibility and Presidential Initiative on Ethnopolitical Warfare, Twin Lakes, Connecticut. Setting curriculum and training for large scale disaster and Ethnopolitical Conflict development at post graduate level.
1998-Present - Founder and Training Director, Foundation for Human Enrichment, Lyons, Colorado.
1998-1999 - Lecture and training, C. J. Jung Society, Denver, Colorado.
1995- Consultant: Colorado Center for Bio-behavioral Health.
1994-Present - Consultant, Pain and Rehabilitation Clinic, Mapleton Center, Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder, Colorado.
1990-1995 - Director and Training Director, Ergos Institute for Somatic Education.
1988-1990 - President, Foundation for Human Enrichment-A non-profit resource in the health sciences.
1988-1989 - Guest Teacher OASIS: International treatment program for refugees and torture victims. Copenhagen, Denmark.
1987-1990 - Guest teacher for the Danish Psychiatric hospitals at Nykooping and Viborg, Denmark.
1987-1989 - Guest Teacher, Bodynamic Institute. Copenhagen, Denmark.
1986-1990 - Consultant, Hopi Guidance Center; clinical training for native therapists.
1985-1989 - Co-teacher with Richard Oiney M.A., Hypnosis and Body Experience, a series of professional residential training programs held in Arizona.
1980-1990 - Program director and primary teacher in the Somatic Experiencing training program for Body Oriented Therapy, Berkeley, California.
1985-1987 - Community Affairs co-director for Ergos Institute, Flagstaff,-Arizona.
1985-1986 - Stress Consultant for Sheriffs Department of Coconino County, Arizona.
1984- Antioch College, San Francisco, California, Faculty in Somatic Psychology.
1983- Teacher in Residence and Director of the Extended Study Program, Esalen Institute. Big Sur, California.
1981-1982 - Visiting Faculty, University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine - Department of Clinical Principles and Practice. And Continuing Medical Education.
1981-1982 - Consultant, Blueberry Treatment Centers for Autistic Children, Brooklyn, New York, with Dr. Mira Rothenberg.
1980-1981 - Consultant, Stress and Pain Center, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
1978-1979 - Consultant to NASA Ames: Stress Factors in Space Shuttle Flight (Project Director; U.C. Consortium with NASA.)
1978-1979 - Instructor, Antioch College, San Francisco.
1977-1979 - Lecturer, Department of Health and Medical Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.
1976-1977 - Field Facility Advisor for Humanistic Psychology Institute Saybrook University, San Francisco, California.
1970-1971 - Lecturer in Contemporary Natural Sciences Program, Department of Physics and Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
1969-1970 - Instructor (acting): Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
1969-1970-Instructor: Life Sciences, Mills College, Oakland, California.
1962-1964 - Research Assistant, Electronic Defense Group and Department of Psychology, University of Michigan with Professor Wilson P. Tanner on electronic prosthetic devices for the blind.
1961- Technical Assistant, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murryhill, New Jersey with Leon D. Harmon in Neurocybernetics, ''Artificial Neuron'' Project.
1961- Research Assistant Department of Psychology with Professor P.M. Fiffs, Stimulus Response compatibility studies in Human Engineering.
PUBLISHED WORKS
1999- Healing Trauma-Restoring the Wisdom of the Body, Peter Levine; Sounds True
1998- Trauma Therapy for Survivors of Torture, Jorgensen and Mathiasen eds.
1997-Waking the Tiger-Healing Trauma, Peter Levine with Ann Frederick; North Atlantic Books
1997- Memory, Trauma, and Healing- article appeared in Spring, 1997 of AHP Journal Perspective. Also in the Journal of Bio-Synthesis.
1996- ''Understanding Childhood Trauma''
1991- ''The Body As Healer, Transforming Trauma''
1990- Revisioning Anxiety and Trauma, in Giving the Body Its Due (ed. Maxine Sheets Johnstone) S.U.N.Y. Press, 1991.
1989- The Substitute Tiger, An Integrative Bio-developmental Approach to Anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress.
1986- Chapter on Stress for Psychophysiology. Systems, Processes, and Application, A Handbook, eds. Coles, M., Donchin, E., and Porges, S., Guilford Press, 1986.
1983- Chronic Perinatal Stress as a Predisposing Factor in Autism and Childhood Psychosis, a Neurodevelopmental model suggesting strategies in treatment and prophylaxis. In: Symposium on Autism co-sponsored by University du Quebec a Montreal and San Francisco State University.
1982- Circle of Damage, Circle of Grace-Stress and Your Children. (Unpublished Manuscript).
1982- Stress, Neurobiology and Behavior Benchmark series on Human Physiology and
Behavior, Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc. (Submitted for Publication).
1978- Stress and Vegetatherapy, Journal of Energy and Character-England (Fall and Winter)
1978- Infra-Uterinee Environment, Stress and Neurological Development, Journal of Behavioral Neuropsychiatry.
1977- Accumulate Stress Reserve Capacity and Disease, University Microfilm 77-15760, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1977- A Rhythm to Growing. - A Comment on the Body Approaches of Reich and Rolf and the Process of Adaptive Growth, Life and Works of Wilhelm Reich, Viking Penguin.
1964- A Model for Flicker Fusion. Bell Telephone Company, Technical Memoranda.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1999- Keynote Speaker, National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, Palm Springs, California.
1996-1999 - Keynote Speaker, American Polarity Therapy Association
1999- The Biology of Emotion- With Candice Perts.
1997- Keynote Speaker, Trauma Conference, Naropa Institute
1997- Keynote Speaker, Oasis Tenth Anniversary, International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1997- Keynote Speaker, International Polarity Conference
1996- Keynote Speaker AHP (Assoc. of Humanistic Psychology) International Conference
1995-1998 - Keynote Speaker The International Somatics Congress-Congress International de Somatotherapy
1995- ''Unifying the Elusive Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress and Closed Head Injury; New Models for Treatment''-Rehabilitation in-service, Mapleton Center/Boulder Community Hospital
1991- ''Somatic Contributions to the Healing of Sexual Abuse.'' University of California Extension School of Public Health.
1991- ''What Is The Child's Reality?, The Child In the Hospital,'' Washoe Medical Center, Reno, Nevada.
1990- Keynote National Hakomi Institute of Body Oriented Psychotherapy.
1989-1990 - Keynote National Guild for Structural Integration.
1989- ''The Ordinary Miracle of Healing'' at Washoe Medical Center, Reno, Nevada.
1989- ''An Integrative Approach to Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress.'' The Second Nordic Psychophysiology Conference, Lynkooping, Sweden.
1988- Keynote National AMTA - ''Body Feeling and Self''
1987-1988 - Grand Rounds, Nevada-Mental Health Institute and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno.
- ''What Constitutes Therapeutic Milieu in a Hospitalized Setting?'' (A panel discussion).
- ''Body/Mind Relationships; A Synthesis of Developmental and Psychophysiological Approaches in the Non-drug, Somatic (body-oriented) Treatment of Psychopathologies''
- ''The Substitute Tiger; Shock as a Critical and Neglected Factor in Treating Phobic States and Other Psychopathologies.'' Reno, Nevada.
1987- ''The Body in Health Care.'' YWCA, Reno, Nevada.
1984- ''Beyond the Relaxation Response: Self-regulation and Healing for Clinicians.'' U.C.L.A. School of Medicine.
1983- ''Towards a Biology of Body Work.'' Keynote Speaker. New Visions in Bodywork Invision Associates and JFK University.
1982- Grand Rounds, Pacific Medical Center (Department of Psychiatry): ''Another Look at Carbon Dioxide Inhalation in the Treatment of Stress Underlying Various Pathologies.''
1982- ''The Body and the Person: Towards a Somatic Model of Health'' (U.C. Extension School of Public Health), Consultant, Coordinator, and Participant.
1981- ''The Perinatal Period: Interface of Biology and Behavior'' (with S. Porges). Esalen Institute, Coordinator and Participant.
1980- ''Conceptualizing Energy Medicine.'' (U.C. Extension School of Public Health).
1979- ''Biology of the Affectional Bond.'' University of California, Berkeley, Health and Medical Sciences; Stanford Research Institute International: Ergos, Foundation, and Esalen Institute; Coordinator and Participant.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Psychological Association
A.M.T.A.-American Massage Therapy Association
Guild for Structural Integration-inactive
Society For Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
CERTIFICATIONS
American Board of Medical Psychotherapists, Fellow and Diplomat
American Board of Stress Practitioners
American Council of Hypnosis Examiners
The American Institute of Stress, Fellow and Diplomat
ISSSEEM-International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine
