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Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

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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.