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Bessel van der Kolk, MD, is a Dutch psychiatrist and trauma expert based in the United States. His research, writing, and teaching focus on the effects of traumatic experiences and the treatment of post-traumatic stress (PTSD).

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Bessel van der Kolk on Trauma, Development and Healing

Internationally acclaimed clinician, educator and researcher Bessel van der Kolk shares some observations from his 40-year passion for understanding and treating people who have experienced trauma.

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David Bullard
2014
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Lifelines: How COVID-19 Creates 'Pre-Traumatic Conditions' in the Brain

Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk is a Boston-based psychiatrist, trauma researcher, and author of the best-selling book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. He says the isolation of staying at home can create what he calls a “pre-traumatic condition.”

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Alex McOwen and Peter Biello
2020
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Nature of Trauma

Initially described as resulting from a onetime severe traumatic incident, PTSD has now been shown to be triggered by chronic multiple traumas as well.

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Bessel van der Kolk
2000
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New Ways of Treating Trauma: Try Some Yoga

When a person experiences traumatic events, the aftermath can be extremely debilitating. Trauma not only affects the mind, but can have lifelong effects on the body.

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Jeremy Hobson
2015
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How the Body Keeps the Score: An Interview with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

In his book “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma,” van der Kolk reveals how trauma rearranges the brain’s wiring, including areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust.

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Isabel Pastor Guzman
2019
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The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma

Nowhere is this relationship more essential yet more endangered than in our healing from trauma, and no one has provided a more illuminating, sympathetic, and constructive approach to such healing than Boston-based Dutch psychiatrist and pioneering PTSD researcher Bessel van der Kolk.

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Maria Popova
2016
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A Revolutionary Approach to Treating PTSD

Psychomotor therapy is neither widely practiced nor supported by clinical studies. In fact, most licensed psychiatrists probably wouldn’t give it a second glance.

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Jeneen Interlandi
2014
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How to Rewire Your Traumatized Brain

“The Body Keeps the Score” hinges on the idea that trauma is stored in the body and that, for therapy to be effective, it needs to take the physiological changes that occur into account.

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Concepción de León
2018
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Are There Better Ways to Treat Traumatic Stress?

Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, founder of Brookline’s Trauma Center and author of a new book, believes options beyond drugs are crucial.

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Rachel Deahl
2014
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Why You Should Write a Letter to Yourself Tonight

Most of us have poured out our hearts in angry, accusatory, plaintive, or sad letters after people have betrayed or abandoned us. Doing so almost always makes us feel better, even if we never send them.

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Bessel van der Kolk
2014
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