The Body Keeps the Score

What it is about

Bessel van der Kolk synthesizes clinical experience and research on how trauma affects memory, attention, physiology, relationships, and bodily experience. He surveys several treatment approaches, arguing that recovery may require more than verbal recollection: safety, regulation, connection, action, and renewed ownership of the body can all matter. I need this book close whenever I start thinking the question has become simple.

Why I keep it

The body keeps the score. Mine did.

Key ideas

Beside it on the shelf · Psychology & Therapy