The body keeps the score : mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma / Bessel van der Kolk.
Publisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2015Description: viii, 443 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0025273105ISBN: 9780141978611 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Psychic trauma -- Popular works. -- Treatment | Mind and body | Health and Wellbeing | Clinical & internal medicine | Trauma & shock | Complementary therapies, healing & health | Popular psychology
| Family & health | Abnormal psychology | Psychiatry | Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation | MindfulnessDDC classification: 616.852106 LOC classification: RC552.P67 | V3 2015Summary: 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. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishing and important book. The trauma Bible. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone struggling with...well...anything' Tara WestoverThe effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here 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 an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.'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
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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. Here 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 an alternative approach that heals 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 Score has sold over 3 million copies since publication [Circana BookScan, April 2024]
Sunday Times (UK) and New York Times (USA) bestseller, March 2024
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishing and important book. The trauma Bible. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone struggling with...well...anything' Tara WestoverThe effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here 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 an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.'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
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