A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic
stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans
and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five
Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three
couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave
traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers
frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children.
Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working
with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score,