Peter A. Levine received his Ph.D. in medical biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley, and also holds a doctorate in psychology from International University. He has worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years and is the developer of “Somatic Experiencing.” This book chronicles author Valmik Thapar’s experiences in Ranthambore National Park. Thapar has observed about 200 tigers over the past 40 years, each of which has its own unique traits. Judith knows about dangerous people who come to your house and take people away. She was told as a young child that her father could be grabbed at any moment by either the Gestapo or the SS - he was in great danger. So I don’t know whether Judith did it consciously or not - I wouldn’t want to go there - but the point is he’s a jokey tiger, but he is a tiger”. Psychologists are a bunch of bone shakers. All of the evidence we have comes from self-report, which can take a 180 degree turn based on whether the participant ate breakfast that day, and brain imaging, which is dudes in labcoats looking at a grainy photo and saying "that part seems to be... activated." It's the least scientific of all scientific disciplines, so to deride an active practitioner, a dude in the trenches of trauma therapy, putting his ass on the line every session and risking his own secondhand traumatization, for being unscientific... it's like standing up at the "Speak now or forever hold your peace" part of a wedding and going: "This marriage is a sham, for God cannot be proven!" It isn't surprising that the reflections pertaining to the tiger's umwelt herein are in general accordance with those expressed in the book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" by Frans de Waal, even those in the book "The Elephant Whisperer" by Lawrence Anthony, and no doubt others. We are all cut from the same cloth, and the ‘all too human’ behavior of man is ‘all too animal.’

No, we did not leave the kids out when choosing books about tigers. What better book to represent kids than this classic written and illustrated by Judith Kerr? Much of the violence that plagues humanity is a direct or indirect result of unresolved trauma that is acted out in repeated unsuccessful attempts to reestablish a sense of empowerment.

Lee-Potter, Emma (5 August 2020). "12 best Indian novels that everyone needs to read". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022 . Retrieved 23 December 2020. The only time we see similar effects in other animals is when they are domesticated or consistently subjected to stressful conditions in controlled laboratory environments. In these cases they develop acute and chronic traumatic reactions. The books featured in this review fall into three basic categories: non-fiction, fiction, and children’s. If you’re looking for a book that will teach you more about the perilous plight of tigers as endangered species, you’ll want to select one of our non-fiction selections such as Living with Tigers or Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed. If you’re interested in a lighter, more entertaining read, go for a fiction book such as Life of Pi or A Tiger for Malgudi. And if you’re buying a book for a child, they’re sure to love The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Format

The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. [1] The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy. The novel examines issues of the Hindu religion, caste, loyalty, corruption and poverty in India. [2] The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr was published in 1968 and was recently turned into a stage play in London. Children's books as theater seems to be having a renaissance of sorts. My inner child is feeling miffed at missing the show. However the author herself denies this. She first thought of the story after visiting a zoo with her three year old daughter, telling it many times over and over for about a year. Then she wrote it all down, and created the careful quirky illustrations. In a witty and amusing narration, the author breaks the fear that a kid could feel toward a fierce animal like a tiger. It was portrayed as an enormous, giant creature that funnily takes up most of the space in the kitchen and dining room of the little girl's house. Yet it was (the tiger) funny, friendly and-somehow-polite till it left their home. The wonders you can find in the giant, bountiful gardens of literature never cease to amaze. One need only look widely enough and take a chance and she might be put in the Siberian taiga (the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes) in far eastern Russia as the locals encounter a looming Amur tiger a/k/a Siberian tiger, an otherworldly animal in all its magnificence, a ne plus ultra combination of beauty and size and ferocity, growing up to ten feet in length from head to hind and nearly seven-hundred pounds. This Siberian seems intent on exacting revenge for being shot, having already eaten two men in separate incidents over several days.

The augmenting material is every bit as interesting. For example there is this about Russia's far Eastern wilderness known as the Taiga: When a Canada-bound cargo ship sinks in the Pacific Ocean, the boy and tiger are among the only survivors. Others include a hyena, an orangutan, and an injured zebra. Some critics, notably the children’s author Michael Rosen, have suggested that the tiger in this story represents something in her past: Peter A.Levine, Ph.D. is the originator and developer of Somatic Experiencing® and the Director of The Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. He holds doctorate degrees in Medical Biophysics and in Psychology. During his thirty five-year study of stress and trauma, Dr. Levine has contributed to a variety of scientific and popular publications. The pivotal question in this story is whether the Amur tiger has the capacity for vengeance. A history of stories from naturalists and hunters as well as current inhabitants has been gathered supporting such a claim A convincing theoretical framework for such a notion is advanced with Jakob von Uexkuell's concept of the Umwelt. Finally, the events leading up to the death of Markov and their astonishing aftermath are reconstructed. It is a story of a tiger transformed by his vengeful encounter with Markov. This is the story arc of the book and the sense of psychological tension and drama are sufficient to hold the reader's interest from beginning to end.

Continuing, Levine described the human brain's three levels and the experience of the hunted gazelle. The layers are: base reptilian brain (conscious choice is not an option, instinctual response is the entire game); the limbic brain (mammalian mind, source of social and herd instinct, Levine's gazelle is here, a positive example of how animals properly shake off trauma); and the higher rational neo-cortex. (An aside, I seem to recall other mammals can show signs of stress as well, harder to measure an elephant's trauma, I suppose. Levine may be oversimplified in his view of animals.) He wrote it for the layman and for survivors, so the language is accessible. It draws heavily on evolutionary biology and psychology which is usually conjecture cross-referenced with the fossil record, as you obviously can't naturalistically observe human evolution, or replicate it in a lab. House cats wish they were as big as tigers. (At least my cats do, or seem to, when there are three dogs, not just the one dog, in the house).As he re-creates these extraordinary events, John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable portrait of this spectacularly beautiful and mysterious region. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers, even sharing their kills with them. We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, soldiers and hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations. And we come to know their descendants, who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching and further upset the natural balance of the region.

If you’ve seen the Life of Pi movie, you should read the original book that inspired it. The award-winning novel by Yann Martel is a tale about the unlikely bond that grows between a teenage boy named Pi Patel and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The story starts with a ring at the door, interrupting Sophie and her mummy when they are having their afternoon tea in their kitchen. Who could it be, they wonder. Sophie opens the door and a tiger peeps around the edge of the door frame. He is very polite, and asks if he may join them. “Of course, come in” Sophie’s mummy says. By regularly bringing down large prey like elk, moose, boar, and deer, the tiger feeds countless smaller animals, birds, and insects, not to mention the soil. Every such event sends another pulse of lifeblood through the body of the forest."

The illustrations in this book are lovely. The depictions of the characters and the clothes that they are wearing are a little old fashioned and I think this adds to the charm of the story.