In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring-specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. 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.
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
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