A tiger goes man-eater and terrorizes a remote Siberian village. Can Yuri Trush and his men end the tiger's bloody reign of terror or join its long list of victims?

The Great Patriotic War had scarcely concluded before the USSR began rebuilding and retooling for the Cold War. While Soviet engineers and scientists perfected the now ubiquitous AK-47 and tested the country’s first nuclear weapons, the general population reeled from the catastrophic synergy generated by six years of war and the seemingly endless nightmare of Stalin’s psychotic reign. During the two decades prior to Markov’s birth, the Soviet Union lost approximately 35 million citizens—more than one fifth of its population—to manufactured famines, political repression, genocide, and war. Millions more were imprisoned, exiled, or forced to relocate, en masse, across vast distances. With the possible exception of China under Mao Zedong, it is hard to imagine how the fabric of a country could have been more thoroughly shredded from within and without.” Exciting, memorable - and perfectly, impeccably right . . . a tale of astonishing power and vigour' Simon Winchester, author of The Surgeon of CrowthorneLike the beast this book is about, The Tiger is patient. It stalks ahead with care and diligence as it learns about its prey, and each step forward the tension builds until the target is reached and then it pounces with devastating fury. 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). I really like this book and would highly recommend it. I hope I get to use it in the classroom when I am a teacher. 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 position was stated that trauma occurs nearly everywhere in the human existence, including as a fetus. Now, if it is the case that animals are less likely to get trauma than humans are, that humans get trauma as a result of the meddling of our higher human cognitive functions inhibiting the natural progression of the mysterious energy from working itself out in our electrical systems as they would normally do thanks to 150 million years of evolution, then how can any human, including very young infants, who still have much development to occur? A couple more adds, from my sparse notes: Well-written and well-researched but TMI at times. Then again, chilling grace notes: an incident when a pride of lions in Africa slaughtered an entire troop of baboons. When the baboons realized they had no hope of escape, they covered their eyes and awaited their fate. says the tiger, and he leaves by the same door as he came in, as they all wave goodbye to each other. O Tigre é uma leitura especialmente destinada a quem gosta de viajar, conhecer outras culturas e diferentes formas de vivência e sobrevivência.

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He teaches trainings in this work throughout the world. He has taught at various indigenous cultures including the Hopi Guidance center in Second Mesa Arizona. Peter has been stress consultant for NASA in the development of the first Space Shuttle. He was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force with “Psychologists for Social Responsibility” and served on the APA initiative for response to large scale disaster and Ethno-political warfare. He is on the ‘distinguished faculty’ of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. 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.)

His recommendation is trying to create some form of meaning aside from "I was a helpless victim", not because it wasn't necessarily true, but because for therapeutic purposes it's not helpful in the long term. Sympathizing with your own victimhood is the willing lamb-on-the-altar sacrifice of your personal power and autonomy, deliberately sabotaging any efforts you (and to a lesser extent, your therapist) make to help you process the trauma and better understand the effect it has had on your perspective, your emotional response cycles, and the person you have become. You need that understanding to effect changes, and you need those changes to keep the PTSD from dominating your life. This is pragmatically indistinguishable from Levine's "shaking it off". When we are healthy and untraumatized, these instinctual responses add sensuality, variety, and a sense of wonder to our lives.This is a book that can broaden your perspective of not only tigers, but also human proclivities and the paradoxes of evolving Russian life.

With exceptional skill the writer weaves a spellbinding account with the thread of hunter and hunted, alternating roles between Amur tiger and man throughout, the detail of the telling magnetic. It's a veritable adventure/thriller/horror book. That is only the binding of the book though. What I found equally immersing was the extensive augmenting material. Such being the relative effects of Russian history from Lenin through perestroika, China's benighted potions market, tiger history and interactions, constructive and aggravating human activities, individual histories and mindsets, topography of the Primorye region, indeed most anything relevant. I have been meaning to return to Peter Levine's work since I was first introduced to him in one of my clinical classes during my MSW program. I remember being annoyed with his theory at the time, arguing with my therapist that it felt belittling to me, the idea that our deepest felt emotions can be boiled down to our "reptilian brain". At the time, I don't think I really even understood it. At the time, I was reading it in reference to working with other people, not myself. My walls were high against any mention that my anxiety had deeper roots beyond my own rationalizing.Compared to social norms today, the depiction of gender roles in this story is out of date, with the mother as house wife preparing supper for daddy, and the father as the sole bread winner. However it must be considered that this story was written over forty years ago so I don’t think this is a real criticism. 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.