Bessel van der Kolk
Dutch-American psychiatrist, researcher and educator · Netherlands · Academics · Born 1943 · age 83
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Something wrong?Bessel van der Kolk is a Boston-based Dutch-American psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator. Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress. He is the author of four books, including The New York Times best seller The Body Keeps the Score, which was translated into 43 languages.
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, We define ‘trauma’ as an event outside the normal human veins of experience. At least one-third of couples, globally, engage in physical violence.
It is striking how many times people carve out a piece of exceptional intelligence - exceptional creativity - that allows them to go on.
Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort.
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Bessel van der Kolk is a Boston-based Dutch-American psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator. Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress. He is the author of four books, including The New York Times best seller The Body Keeps the Score, which was translated into 43 languages. Scientists have criticized the book for promoting pseudoscientific claims about trauma, memory, the brain, and development.
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