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Peter Alan Levine (born 1942)[citation needed] is an American psychotraumatologist, biophysicist and psychologist. As a psychotherapist, he offers lectures, advanced training and seminars on Somatic Experiencing (SE) he founded worldwide. He described his understanding of coherence with the acronym SIBAM (sensation, image, behavior, affect and meaning). For Levine, a complete phenomenological experience is only given with the simultaneous activation of those five aspects. In the case of coherence, all five elements of consciousness combine with one another. Trauma creates a fragmentation of the coherence of experience. Separately from the meaning, an image triggers an affect, e.g. black rubber boots trigger the impulse to flee. The here and now becomes there and then. By emphasizing only two of the channels of the SIBAM model, cognition and behavior, cognitive behavioral therapy ignores three very important aspects of coherent experience, sensation, image and affect.[1]
In October 2010 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award[2] from the American Association of Body Psychotherapists.
In September 2024, Levine appeared as a guest on the The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast.[3]
- ^ "Why You Can't Think Your Way Out of Trauma | Psychology Today". www.psychologytoday.com. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
- ^ "Lifetime Achievement Award". United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. USABP. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ Gilmartin, Paul (2024-09-27). "Inventor Of Somatic Experiencing - Dr Peter Levine". The Mental Illness Happy Hour. Retrieved 2024-09-27.