About the Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the
Transformation of Trauma
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what
treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr
Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic
stress.
Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With
stories of his own work and those of specialists around the globe, The Body
Keeps the Score sheds new light on the routes away from trauma - which lie in
the regulation and syncing of body and mind,