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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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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In How Childhood Trauma is Different from PTSD, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, shares 3 ways childhood trauma can affect a person differently than what we see in adults with PTSD. Trauma at an early age can impact the development of a person and create specific challenges in 3 areas of their life.
Bessel van der Kolk, clinical psychiatrist and best-selling author of The Body Keeps the Score, shares how yoga can help you get “unstuck” from the imprints of trauma.
. . . medications only blunt sensations and do nothing to resolve them or transform them from toxic agents into allies. The mind needs to be reeducated to feel physical sensations, and the body needs to be helped to tolerate and enjoy the comforts of touch.
There are three core ways that trauma can change the brain. Bessel van der Kolk, MD, says that you can see these differences in the brain between clients who have PTSD and those who don't. These brain changes can leave clients more susceptible to being triggered while making life seem more menacing.
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.”
Individuals who lack emotional awareness are able, with practice, to connect their physical sensations to psychological events. Then they can slowly reconnect with themselves.
This is a training summit geared toward professionals. We’ll go beyond ordinary interviews. Each speaker will present a body of knowledge from their passionate, in-depth research and explorations in healing trauma and attachment wounds.
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Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence-the body keeps the score. That’s how Dr.
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. . . medications only blunt sensations and do nothing to resolve them or transform them from toxic agents into allies. The mind needs to be reeducated to feel physical sensations, and the body needs to be helped to tolerate and enjoy the comforts of touch.
