Guide to Bessel van der Kolk's, MD The Body Keeps the Score

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bessel van der Kolk's, MD The Body Keeps the Score and NOT the original book.

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In The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, explores the ways in which trauma rewires the brain and changes the way people experience the world.

Trauma affects the mind and body immensely and prevents those affected from living in the present.

Inside this companion:

• Overview of the book

• Important People

• Key Insights

• Analysis of Key Insights

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• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781944195236

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Reviews for Guide to Bessel van der Kolk's, MD The Body Keeps the Score

[davidferrers-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is an amazing book for anyone who has ever suffered trauma. It is giving me so much understanding about the effect that events in my early life had upon my feelings and behaviour. I am so grateful to the author for showing me the source of so many of my behaviours that I have never liked in myself. It has been a real eye-opener for me.

[liscarey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was in many ways a tough listen for me, but a good one. Van der Kolk is a psychiatrist who has worked extensively with trauma survivors. This book is about the ways traumatic experiences permanently affect us.Trauma isn't just something that happens to our bodies, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder isn't just something that happens in our brains.It doesn't take combat, terrifying accidents, or obvious child abuse to cause PTSD. Obviously they all can, and do, and are the most easily recognized causes. But other events, that may not even be recognized as trauma, can also be traumatic, and have lasting effects.Among these less obvious traumatic experiences are separating a baby or young child from a primary caregiver. Infants and children need security, trust, confidence that they can rely on the adults responsible for their care. Going from one family or set of caretakers to another is scary and deeply unsettling. That doesn't mean it's never justified. Indeed, sometimes it's absolutely essential. I just deleted an account of events in my own childhood that I've decided it's not appropriate to post.A lot of my own issues come from these events in my early childhood, that I'd long been told didn't happen, and which no one involved intended in a bad way. From the viewpoint of the adults, it had been the sensible thing to do at the time. They were keeping me safe. But I grew up with what seemed like objectively true knowledge, that I had better not annoy the adults in charge of me, because they might decide to send me someplace else.This book let me recognize these fears as not abnormal, not just intellectually (I'd heard the same from therapists prior to the one who said "get this book") but also at least a little bit emotionally, and also feel that maybe I can get past them.I'm not doing justice to this book. It's clear, accessible, revealing. I learned a lot, and not just about my own issues. But it can be upsetting, precisely because it can be useful.Highly recommended.I borrowed this audiobook from my local library.

[jellyfishjones · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Essential reading for anyone who works with children, who has experienced trauma themselves, or who works with adults with trauma history. This book surveys the topic at both introductory and deep levels. The first four parts all deal with what science currently knows about how trauma physically rewires the brain and body. The final part surveys the most promising treatment methods currently available for treating trauma. I appreciate that everything is well-cited using unobtrusive footnotes and that there is a wonderful resource appendix. As might be expected, the book is heavy reading at times, but ultimately provides a hopeful message of the possibility of healing even the deepest trauma. As an educator, I consider this essential professional development reading. It has greatly impacted my understanding of my students.

[milehighlibrarian · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Outstanding resource for understanding the effects of trauma on the brain and body and therapies that can aid in recovery.

[bness2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Another book that everyone needs to read. Trauma is so much a part of so many people's lives, and children experience trauma way more often then they should. van der Kolk provides an excellent overview of the topic and provides lots of hope for ways the effects of trauma can be treated. Read it, you will not regret it!

[spinsterrevival · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is packed with information on trauma and important ways to deal with it. There’s a lot that’s hard to listen to as the author worked with veterans as well as survivors of childhood and sexual abuse. I think though that even someone not having experienced such hardcore abuse has likely still had more moderate traumatic experiences, and this book explains many different methods for help.

[clifforddham · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Understood ti be very important work on the psychological origins of physical damage.