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. One does well to grapple with it and learn from it.A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times Science bestseller Nevertheless, it is understandable why so many highly recommend the work. We do best to live so as to not traumatize others!The author gets a little triumphalist in the account. That so much about trauma has only been ascertained over the past few years should give us all pause about how much more there is to learn, discover, and understand about such things. It would be good to see more done with biofeedback. The author makes a compelling case regarding what trauma is and how it effects growth and development. adult trauma and various methods used to attempt to help people recover from trauma. He explores the history of how trauma was understood the misdirections of the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries and how WW1, WW2, and Vietnam compelled a reconsideration of trauma and PTSD what trauma looks like in the brain how trauma is expressed childhood vs. The author's journey in researching trauma and how trauma has been treated in America.The author is one of the foremost authorities on trauma and helped to get trauma studies recognized for their importance. But it can be upsetting, precisely because it can be useful.Highly recommended.I borrowed this audiobook from my local library. I learned a lot, and not just about my own issues. But I grew up with what seemed like objectively true knowledge, that I had better not annoy the adults in charge of me, because they might decide to send me someplace else.This book let me recognize these fears as not abnormal, not just intellectually (I'd heard the same from therapists prior to the one who said "get this book") but also at least a little bit emotionally, and also feel that maybe I can get past them.I'm not doing justice to this book. From the viewpoint of the adults, it had been the sensible thing to do at the time. I just deleted an account of events in my own childhood that I've decided it's not appropriate to post.A lot of my own issues come from these events in my early childhood, that I'd long been told didn't happen, and which no one involved intended in a bad way. Indeed, sometimes it's absolutely essential. Going from one family or set of caretakers to another is scary and deeply unsettling. Infants and children need security, trust, confidence that they can rely on the adults responsible for their care. But other events, that may not even be recognized as trauma, can also be traumatic, and have lasting effects.Among these less obvious traumatic experiences are separating a baby or young child from a primary caregiver. Obviously they all can, and do, and are the most easily recognized causes. This book is about the ways traumatic experiences permanently affect us.Trauma isn't just something that happens to our bodies, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder isn't just something that happens in our brains.It doesn't take combat, terrifying accidents, or obvious child abuse to cause PTSD. Van der Kolk is a psychiatrist who has worked extensively with trauma survivors. This was in many ways a tough listen for me, but a good one. 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. “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 StudiesĪ pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller
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