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The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
Library Shelf Location 05.VAND
Publication Date 2015
Description

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.

'Van der Kolk draws on thirty years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma is one of the West's most urgent public health issues ... Packed with science and human stories' New Scientist

'Breathtaking in its scope and breadth, a seminal work by one of the preeminent pioneers in trauma research and treatment' Peter A. Levine, author of In An Unspoken Voice

'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery

ISBN 9780141978611
Quantity 1
Pages 464pp, 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Author Bessel Van der Kolk
Format Paperback
Publisher Penguin
Categories Non-art books relating to BALTIC exhibitions, Theory
Keywords Trauma, Body (subject), Psychology, Mental Health, Health and related concepts, Healing, Care

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