The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain's wiring-specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk € 17.99 This item arrived at both our stores within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 2-3 working days.Ī pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal-and offers new hope for reclaiming lives. He explores innovative treatments-from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga-that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity.

In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. #1 New York Times bestseller 'Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.' -Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller Trauma is a fact of life.

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk