The Body Keeps The Score

Dr Bessel van der Kolk's landmark, bestselling book on trauma, drawing on decades of research and clinical experience as a psychiatrist. Van der Kolk explores how traumatic experience reshapes both the brain and the body, often leaving survivors dealing with the effects long after the danger has passed, and lays out a range of therapeutic approaches, from talk therapy to yoga and neurofeedback, that can help the body process and release what words alone often cannot reach. A foundational, deeply influential text for anyone wanting to understand trauma's lasting physical and psychological impact.