The Body Keeps the Score (pdf) – Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist who has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and written numerous books on the subject of trauma. He’s also a highly acclaimed professor of psychiatry, and president of the Trauma Research Foundation. In short, when it comes to understanding trauma, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone with more expertise in the field.
In this article, Van der Kolk examines how trauma has a long-lasting effect on a person’s physical, emotional, and phycological well-being. He shows how emotions and sensations imprinted during a traumatic event are experienced not as memories, but as disruptive physical reactions in the present. These reactions can be manifested in a person’s physical, emotional, or relational well-being.
Van der Kolk examines the need to address trauma in order to move towards the present. He uncovers the true cost of stress, anxiety, and trauma, and shows how the body is literally keeping score of how we’re treating it. With a better idea of self-care and healing, we can avoid numerous life-threatening diseases.
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