Trauma and Recovery Explained Through Body and Mind
Trauma is explained through the body as well as the mind, which gives this book its lasting importance. Bessel van der Kolk makes difficult material accessible while changing how memory, stress and recovery are understood. It remains serious, compassionate and deeply useful.
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The Body Keeps the Score
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Trauma and Recovery Explained Through Body and Mind
Trauma is explained through the body as well as the mind, which gives this book its lasting importance. Bessel van der Kolk makes difficult material accessible while changing how memory, stress and recovery are understood. It remains serious, compassionate and deeply useful.
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD
‘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, author of Trauma and Recovery
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. In this landmark work, 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 towards approaches that help heal mind, brain and body.
‘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
‘An astonishing and important book. The trauma Bible. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone struggling with... well... anything.’ — Tara Westover
The Body Keeps the Score has sold over 3 million copies since publication (Circana BookScan, April 2024)
Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, March 2024
Ideal for readers who:
- Need a serious but accessible account of how trauma affects brain, body and memory.
- Are interested in recovery approaches beyond standard talk and drug therapies.
- Value case histories that make complex mental-health research feel concrete.
- Prefer substantial non-fiction that can change how suffering and healing are understood.
- 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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- ISBN
- 9780141978611
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, (24 September 2015)
- Number of Pages
- 560
- Weight
- 394 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 128 x 26 mm
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