The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk 2014

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
trauma psychology neuroscience healing

Our Take

Van der Kolk argues that trauma is not a psychological problem but a physiological one — the body stores it in places the talking cure cannot reach. The case studies are the devastation. The science is the hope. You will read this and understand your own reactions to things you thought were over.

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