Author
Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
We've read and reviewed Bessel van der Kolk M.D.'s psychology and mental health book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score is the rare trauma book that explains why the past lodges in the nervous system and won't be reasoned away. Part neuroscience, part clinical memoir, it reframes recovery as something the body has to relearn, not just talk through.