The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
'The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma' by Bessel van der Kolk is a comprehensive exploration of how trauma impacts the brain, mind, and body. The author delves into various types of trauma, including childhood trauma and military PTSD, while providing up-to-date research on mindfulness, meditation, and therapeutic treatments. Through case histories and personal experiences, van der Kolk explains the lasting effects of trauma on memory and emotions, offering insights into ways to cope and heal from traumatic experiences.
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Content warnings for The Body Keeps the Score include discussions of trauma, PTSD, sexual abuse, childhood trauma, and emotional distress. The content may be triggering for some readers.
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#1 New York Times bestseller
"Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society." -Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments-from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga-that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal-and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
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Anyone who has PTSD or knows someone with PTSD should read this book. It gives a great overview of what it is like to suffer from this disorder, as well as a lot of hope for survivors. Psychiatrists like van der Kolk are breaking ground in body-based therapies that show a lot of promise for rewiring the brain after the physical damage of trauma. I don't mean physical as in a concussion; I mean the physical rewiring of the brain that makes trauma victims act a certain way. Through neuroplasticity, there is hope that a trauma victim's brain can be returned to "normal" so she is not always stuck in the past, reliving the moment of trauma and reacting accordingly (that is to say, in constant fight/flight/freeze mode).
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About the Author:
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., is the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is also a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and director of the National Complex Trauma Treatment Network….
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