An incredible book on trauma -- William Leith, 'Books of the Year'
* Evening Standard *
Van der Kolk draws on 30 years of experience to argue powerfully
that trauma is one of the West's most urgent public health
issues... Packed with science and human stories ... van der Kolk
has a lot to say, and the struggle and resilience of his patients
is very moving * New Scientist *
The Body Keeps the Score is clear, fascinating, hard to put down,
and filled with powerful case histories. Van der Kolk, the eminent
impresario of trauma treatment, who has spent a career bringing
together diverse trauma scientists and clinicians and their ideas,
while making his own pivotal contributions, describes what is
arguably the most important series of breakthroughs in mental
health in the last thirty years. We've known that psychological
trauma fragments the mind. Here we see not only how psychological
trauma also breaks connections within the brain, but also between
mind and body, and learn about the exciting new approaches that
allow people with the severest forms of trauma to put all the parts
back together again -- Norman Doidge, author of The Brain That
Changes Itself
This is masterpiece of powerful understanding and brave
heartedness, one of the most intelligent and helpful works on
trauma I have ever read. Dr. Van der Kolk offer a brilliant
synthesis of clinical cases, neuroscience, powerful tools and
caring humanity, offering a whole new level of healing for the
traumas carried by so many -- Jack Kornfied, author of A Path With
Heart
Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of
the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the
truth teller -- Judith Herman, M.D., clinical professor of
psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; author of Trauma and Recovery
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