The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

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

Bessel van der Kolk

464 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 t...

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