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

For the kid that was you, for your own kids and the kids you know.. know where all the behaviour comes from and how it manifests once we are adults.The read is Revealing and healing at the same time..

Dr Vander kolk had portrayed the nature and behaviour of trauma survivors or anyother abuse survivors ,PTSD in war veterans in a detailed way and this book is must needed to understand what happens in the brain of trauma survivors ...wonderful book and affordable cost as well

The mind-body connection to regulate traumatic stress works with both approaches top-down and bottom-up. Meditation and yoga can be used to regulate the mind whereas breath control and movement can calm the physical tensions in the body.Note - Read and reviewed by my dad.

This book has been life changing. It was not only a recommended by my sister who is suffering from fibromyalgia, meanwhile I am dealing with depression and anxiety, but also recommended by my psychologist.It has not only provided useful insights and drama, but also the authors personal journey researching on trauma and the people who were studied in the process .

In The Body Keeps the Score, the author Bessel van der Kolk is giving 'a loud cry' to apprise us about the impending threat from the hidden epidemic in the most developed world. The epidemic is NOT biological, but social: the early childhood adverse experiences in the family impairing the wiring of the brain (Chapter 10). Even more alarming was, the author notes quite early in the book (Chapter 1), the textbooks hiding the father-daughter incest and subsequent traumatic life of victims.Dr. Van der Kolk seems as much helpless in this scenario as anyone may feel. But as an authority on trauma, Kolk professes to look back, not to be eluded by psychofarmacologia, and consolidate the 'talking cure' of ages. He underlines again and again the need to help the victim of the trauma to recover from the past the troubling residue in the mind, brain and body. This residue remains elusive from the victim as well as therapist. Repression, he writes, is not an outdated hypothesis; we can explore it through the new technology. For example, the MRI images, Kolk vividly tells the reader, clearly show that the trauma shuts down information flow towards the left brain. It remains limited to the right brain. But, it is the left brain that analyses the information with reasoning. In other words, the self has no access to the traumatic material, for there is dissociation. The association, Kolk writes, comes through the 'talking cure.'The author, throughout the book, apprises the reader with the most important experiments from laboratories that help psychiatrists to modify strategies to recover the trauma from victim's mind, brain and body, so that the agency of the patient get hold on it. One may find reference, for example, to experiments: on dogs who would show signs of trauma after inescapable shocks; on the developmental disabilities in monkey infants due to faulty rearing; and, on the role of interoception in different species. In humans interoception takes leap, as it builds the structure of our feelings.I repeat, in order to apprise oneself with 'the loud cry' of the author about the trauma, it is imperative to take a journey through the book. Could we learn from our monkey cousins where the loud cry (p. 95) of a member triggers rallying response from the entire group to meet the challenge. The secure base hypothesis of John Bowlby is invaluable, Kolk underlines, to avoid these transactions. The last part of the book introduces the reader to a range of healing methods, from medication to talking cure, yoga, EDMR, theatre, and neurofeedback.The only hassle for a curious reader may be the small font of the book, but then it is a feast to enjoy such a vast knowledge at an affordable price.

This is one of its kind of people who want to understand how humans function. It is deep, somewhere dark yet enlightening. Reading this book might make u revisit so many things in ur head so read it only when u r mentally prepared to do so. Not suggested for light readers.

One of the most brilliant and important books that I have ever read. The book has very well explained that stress can indeed cause physiological issues, which many people fail to accept.I liked how it also provides overview of some techniques that can work even for people who are not comfortable speaking up about their issues with strangers. The book doesn't prescribes plethora of medications like doctors do, without solving the root cause.Font size is small for white front cover book but that's publishers fault, the content deserves five stars.

Great concepts!

Vale a pena a leitura!

One of the best books I have ever read about psychology. The author covers a wide range of mental issues and explains in details the origins of those traumas. For curious people and people that wish to better understand human psychology it’s definitely a book to read.

Ein absolut bedeutsames Buch über Trauma(heilung), das, finde ich, Pflichtlektüre für alle (angehenden) Psychotherapeuten sein sollte, da in diesem Gebiet reine Gesprächstherapie oft nicht greift und traumatische Erfahrungen vielen Leiden zugrunde liegen.Körperbasierte Therapieansätze (z.B. Somatic Experiencing von P. Levine) werden häufig nur von speziellen Traumatherapeuten/Heilpraktikern angewandt und diese haben meist keine Kassenzulassung (nicht jeder kann sich dies leisten). Hier sollte sich in in meinen Augen einiges tun in der Therapielandschaft (beginnend bei der Ausbildung an Universitäten)

I think this is the first review I’ve ever written on Amazon, but if someone out there is struggling to make sense of themselves, if you feel like you’re living a half-life or like you just can’t carry on, you must buy this book.I’ve been fighting with ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression’ for a long time, such a long time that at many points I thought they were going to take my life and started to pull away from everyone. I had no idea how to start healing, didn’t even know what to heal, yet reading the case studies of many others, I began to understand myself and by extension others in my life so much more. The author does away with so much modern medicine and ‘diagnosis,’ and focuses on the concept of trauma and how it affects our wiring. It’s so much easier to understand what makes us the way we are, and more importantly, how to begin to move towards a more positive, grounded mind.Over the last two months, alongside meditation and therapy, this book has illuminated the corners of my mind and showed me a path to a calm confidence, helping me finally make peace with some of the darkest moments of life.I’ve always been fascinated by the Japanese concept of Kintsugi, the art of repairing the cracks and fissures of broken objects with gold. And I finally see why. This book has been the gold in which my cracks have been filled, thank you thank you thank you. I’m no longer looking for a way out anymore, just the way forward. Thank you.

Libro davvero interessante, ha argomenti profondi, intimi e pesanti che vengono presentati ed affrontati in modo chiaro. Lo sconsiglio solamente se è il primo libro per approcciare a questo mondo complesso, per altro sicuramente uno dei libri che ho amato maggiormente.