Resources

Useful Links & References

Resources selected to deepen your understanding of Somatic Experiencing®, NARM® and Systemic Constellations.

Somatic Experiencing® — Resources

🎬 Videos:

Nature’s Lessons in Healing Trauma: An Introduction to Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) [Instructional video] Somatic Experiencing International. (2014, October 15). Produit par Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.
Trauma, Somatic Experiencing and Peter A. Levine PhD (English) Peter A. Levine. (2009). A Summary of Trauma and Somatic Experiencing [Video]. YouTube (official YouTube channel of Peter A. Levine).
The Case of Rays, a marine traumatised during the Irak war. Somatic Experiencing International. (2014). [Video]. Clinical case presented by Peter A. Levine illustrating nervous system regulation and the gradual integration of trauma through a body-oriented approach.
What is the Polyvagal Theory. [Interview]. Stephen W. Porges. (2018, April 23). PsychAlive. Short overview of the Polyvagal Theory, explaining how the autonomic nervous system responds to safety and threat, and how these physiological states shape emotions, behavior, and our capacity for connection and regulation, as described by Stephen W. Porges.

🎬 Movies:

The Wisdom of Trauma (2021). documentary film by Gabor Maté, produced by Science and Nonduality (SAND). This is a documentary examining trauma as a root cause of addiction and emotional suffering, emphasizing compassion and trauma-informed healing, featuring insights from Gabor Maté
The Life of Pi [Feature film] Lee, A. (Director). (2012). 20th Century Fox. A powerful allegorical film illustrating how instinct, imagination, and inner resources support survival during extreme trauma, and how meaning-making can help integrate post-traumatic experiences

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Books:

📕 Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine (Author) and Gabor Mate (Contributor). July 7, 1997

➡️ Foundational international best-seller introducing a body-based understanding of trauma and nervous system regulation, and laying the groundwork for Somatic Experiencing®, developed by Peter A. Levine

📕 In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

Levine, P. A. (2010). Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. Foreword by Gabor Maté

📕 The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation.

Porges, S. W. (2011) W. W. Norton & Company.

📕 In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Maté, G (2008). Toronto, Canada: Vintage Canada.

📕 Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents’ Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience

Peter A. Levine Ph.D. and Maggie Klin. Mar 4, 2008

📕 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 Ph.D. and Bessel A. van der Kolk M.D. Oct 27, 2015

NARM® — Resources

Official Websites:

🎬 Videos:

🎬 How Relationships Shape Your Brain [Interview]. Andrew Huberman (Host). (2023) In this interview, Dr. Allan Schore explains how early attachment relationships shape right-brain development, emotional regulation, and stress resilience, highlighting the neurobiological foundations of trauma, connection, and relational repair.
🎬 Attachment Theory, Harry Harlow’s macaques experiment. (1950) Overview of attachment theory through Harlow’s experiments, which challenged the assumption that infants attach primarily to those who provide nourishment. Instead, the findings demonstrate that emotional security and contact comfort are essential for nervous system regulation, and that early relational disruption can contribute to developmental trauma.

Books & Article:

📕 Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship

Heller, L., & LaPierre, A. (2012). Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.

➡️ Foundational work establishing the clinical and theoretical framework of developmental trauma and introducing the core principles of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)

📕 The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma: Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma

Heller, L. (2020). Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.

➡️ Clinical and practice-oriented work detailing the application of NARM in the treatment of complex and developmental trauma.

📄 Modern attachment theory: The central role of affect regulation in development and treatment.

Social Work Journal, 36(1), 9–20. Schore and Schore (2007)

argue that modern attachment theory has evolved into a regulation-based model in which affect regulation is central to both development and psychotherapy. Early caregiver–infant interactions shape right-brain systems responsible for emotional regulation and the implicit self. Therapeutic change, they propose, occurs through nonverbal, right-brain-to-right-brain affect regulation within the therapeutic relationship.

Systemic Constellations — Resources

Official Websites:

  • LienPsyL’Institut Européen des Nouvelles Solutions en Psychologie
  • Bert Hellingerofficial website, developper of the Systemics Constellations.

Books:

📕 Supporting Love : How Love Works in Couple Relationships

Bert Hellinger – April 1, 2001

📕 Family Constellations: A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict

Joy Manne Ph.D. (Author),‎ Bert Hellinger (Foreword). September 22, 2009

📕 Aïe, mes aïeux !

Anne Ancelin-Schutzenberger. 13 mai 2015