Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Dr Bessel van der Kolk is one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress. He is the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston, USA, and director of the Complex Trauma Treatment Network. A past professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, he is the author of several scholarly books and over a hundred scientific articles.
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm... (more)
Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
A book of great scope and lucid intelligence that integrates the work of many pioneers and captures the keen spirit of inquiry that animates this rapidly developing field. It is a comprehensive... (more)