The Body Keeps the Score By Bessel van der Kolk

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this #1 New York Times bestselling work. Trauma reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. Drawing on more than three decades of experience, van der Kolk reveals how trauma literally rearranges the brain's wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. 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.