
The Body Keeps The Score
Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
Paperback | 1 December 2015 | Edition Number 1
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Industry Reviews
An astonishing and important book. The trauma Bible. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone struggling with...well...anything - Tara Westover
Fascinating, hard to put down, and filled with powerful case histories. . . . the most important series of breakthroughs in mental health in the last thirty years - Norman Doidge, author of The Brain That Changes Itself
A gripping bestseller about where trauma goes, and its disastrous effects on both individuals and societies. Deeply interesting. * The Times *
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., author of Trauma and Recovery
Everyone should read this book - Nigella Lawson
A seminal book that outlines the author's pioneering work - Thea Jane May * Vogue *
Fascinating, hard to put down, and filled with powerful case histories. . . . the most important series of breakthroughs in mental health in the last thirty years - Norman Doidge, author of The Brain That Changes Itself
A gripping bestseller about where trauma goes, and its disastrous effects on both individuals and societies. Deeply interesting. * The Times *
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., author of Trauma and Recovery
Everyone should read this book - Nigella Lawson
A seminal book that outlines the author's pioneering work - Thea Jane May * Vogue *
ISBN: 9780141978611
ISBN-10: 0141978619
Published: 1st December 2015
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 560
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Penguin UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 12.5 x 4
Weight (kg): 0.42
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