The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their
families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on
traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving
away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an
alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.
Dr Bessel van der Kolk is one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress. He is the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston, USA, and the director of the Complex Trauma Treatment Network. A past professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, Dr van der Kolk is the author of several scholarly books and over a hundred scientific articles.
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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