The Body Keeps the Score Pdf by Bessel van der Kolk about the effects of psychological trauma, also known as traumatic stress. The book describes van der Kolk’s research and experiences on how individuals are affected by traumatic stress and its effects on the Mind and Body.
It was published in 2014 and became the New York Times bestseller book for several weeks, and translated into more than 36 languages worldwide.
The Body Keeps The Score [Book Overview]:
In this book, In The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s leading experts on trauma, uses recent scientific approaches to show how trauma reshapes both brain and body, jeopardizing sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, trust and self-control.
He explores treatments ranging from neurofeedback and meditation to yoga, sports, and drama, which give new recovery paths by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.
Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s analysis and other leading specialists, this book reveals our relationships’ enormous power to hurt and heal and gives new hope for reclaiming lives.
The book explains all the effect of trauma and modes of healing, including possible eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, limbic system therapy, and yoga.
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This Pdf eBook provides a surprising amount of knowledge on almost every aspect of trauma research, experience, interventions, and theories is drawn together in this book, which has a precisely holistic feel to it.
The title implies that what will be explored is how the Body holds the marks of trauma.
However, it gives much more than this, probing into how the brain is affected by powerful traumatic events and is studded with segments on neuroscience based on the author’s own various studies and that of his companions.
In addition, it examines the effects of adverse childhood attachment patterns, child abuse, and constant and long-term abuse.
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I rarely write reviews, but this book has been so life changing for me that I feel the need to review it in the hope that others who are searching for answers might be led to read it. For decades I felt less-than, broken somehow, plagued by guilt, shame, and confusion about why I was so stuck in a paralyzing rut of self doubt that kept me from the sense of self I craved. Intellectually I understood that I felt the way that I did because of past and ongoing trauma, but I could never fully bridge the gap between knowing and actually FEELING. For example, no matter how many times I told myself that my traumatic feelings were valid, no matter if I knew it to be true, I couldn’t stop the voice inside berating me as weak, too sensitive, dramatic, undeserving, etc. which was a source of constant stress and triggering. This book helped me to be able to detach enough to observe what triggered what emotional responses and enabled me to practice understanding self care in a manner that seemed impossible before. The book is also incredibly well written and interesting for just about anyone with an interest in body-mind connection and trauma. I recently sent a copy to a veteran with PTSD since the author has so much experience and knowledge with that population. This is a book I will keep and reread regularly. This is a book with great healing potential and I am truly and fully excited about my future for the first time in a long while.
Incredibly enlightening! I learned a lot about the effects of trauma when left untreated, and numerous treatment modalities. The neuroscience is fascinating and educational. NOTE: This IS written for the layperson! You don’t need to be an MD or PhD to understand. This is such important information and should be incorporated into our mental health diagnostic and treatment standards. The challenge is that insurance companies and big pharma don’t want things like “developmental trauma” (which would be a diagnosis for kids) included in the diagnostic manuals. They would lose too much money. Instead, kids continue to be misdiagnosed (ADD/ADHD, ODD, EBD, CD) and medicated with drugs that have no chance of fixing the problem. If you’ve had a trauma in childhood that was never resolved, if you are raising a child with challenges (attachment, trauma, adoption, etc.), if you’ve had trauma as an adult that you just can’t shake – THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU.
This is the greatest book ever written on trauma and especially PTSD. This book has changed my life even after 23 years of dealing with this problem which included 8 years of counseling with 4 different counselors. It explains what you are going through in a compassionate way and gives you a means to heal, change and become who you want to be! Just DO NOT BUY FROM TOTAL BOOKS-It did not arrive even after 30 days.