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The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score is one of those books that changes how you see yourself and others. It explores how trauma doesn’t just live in the mind – it lives in the body, shaping the way we think, react, and even feel about safety. Through decades of research and stories from his patients, van der Kolk shows how trauma rewires the brain and nervous system, and why healing requires more than talking about it. It’s not a light read, but it’s powerful. It helps you understand that your reactions, sensitivities, and struggles aren’t personal flaws – they’re your body’s…

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The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma

A world expert presents a sympathetic exploration of the causes of trauma and the new treatments making it possible for sufferers to reclaim their lives

What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress.

Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his own work and those of specialists around the globe, The Body Keeps the Score sheds new light on the routes away from trauma – which lie in the regulation and syncing of body and mind, using sport, drama, yoga, mindfulness, meditation and other routes to equilibrium.

Book Description

A world expert presents a sympathetic exploration of the causes of trauma and the new treatments making it possible for sufferers to reclaim their lives

About the Author

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.

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