Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing case studies from his own practice, Dr. Levine suggests that although memory can be trusted, he argues that the only truly useful memories are those that might initially seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the body and not necessarily accessible by our conscious mind. While much work has been done in the field of trauma studies to address "explicit" traumatic memories in the brain (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores "implicit" memory, and how much of what we think of as "memory" actually comes to us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt sense.
