Book Name: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 1st Edition
Author: Bessel van der Kolk MD
Publisher: Viking Adult,
Year: 2014
Pages: 464
Language: English
File size: 5 MB
File format: PDF
A pioneering writer transforms our comprehension of injury and provides a daring new paradigm for recovery in this New York Times bestseller Trauma is a simple fact of life. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, among the world’s leading experts on injury, has spent more than three years working with natives. At The Body Keeps the Score, he utilizes recent technological advancements to demonstrate how injury literally reshapes both the body and mind, undermining sufferers’ skills for pleasure, involvement, self control, and hope. He investigates innovative therapies from neurofeedback and meditation to athletics, play, and yoga offering fresh paths to healing by triggering the mind’s natural neuroplasticity. According to Dr. van der Kolk’s own study and from other prominent experts, The Body Keeps the Score reveals the enormous ability of our relationships equally to damage and to cure and provides new hope for regaining lives.The injury brought on by childhood neglect, domestic or sexual abuse and war wreak havoc in our bodies,” states Bessel van der Kolk in The Body Keeps the Score. Van der Kolk draws on 30 decades of expertise to argue powerfully that injury is just one of the West’s most pressing public health issues.Packed with human and science stories.An astonishing quantity of information on nearly every facet of injury experience, study, interventions, and concepts is brought together in this publication, which. Has a clearly holistic sense to it. The name suggests what will be researched is the way the body keeps the imprints of injury. But it provides far more than that, delving into the way the brain is affected by overwhelming traumatic events, and is studded with segments on neuroscience that draw on the writer’s own numerous research in addition to that of his coworkers.