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The Body Keeps the Score

By Bessel van der Kolk

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Books, 2014.

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The Body Keeps the Score

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Explores the damaging effects of post-traumatic stress disorder in relation to the physical body, with recovery methods that help reshape your brain and release chronic suffering.

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Who should read The Body Keeps the Score

Psychologists • PTSD patients • domestic abuse survivors • friends and family of alcoholics • veterans • anyone who has experienced trauma

About the author of The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk is a Netherlands-born psychiatrist, professor, and researcher living in Boston and is the founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts. He has been course director of the annual Boston International Trauma Conference since 1989, earned his medical doctorate at the University of Chicago, and completed psychiatric residency at Harvard Medical School.

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