Over 500,000 children are reported for abuse and neglect each year.
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What have you learned from neuroscience, attachment research, and interpersonal neurobiology about how to help children and adults recover from toxic stress?Ī.
You’ve been working with traumatized children and adults for many years and have seen significant changes in how mental illness and trauma are treated. Published by Penguin Random House A Conversation with Bessel van der Kolk Readers will come away from this book with awe at human resilience and at the power of our relationships-whether in the intimacy of home or in our wider communities-to both hurt and heal.
This may involve a range of therapeutic interventions (one size never fits all), including various forms of trauma processing, neurofeedback, theater, meditation, play, and yoga. Only making it safe for trauma victims to inhabit their bodies, and to tolerate feeling what they feel, and knowing what they know, can lead to lasting healing. A constant sense of danger and helplessness promotes the continuous secretion of stress hormones, which wreaks havoc with the immune system and the functioning of the body’s organs. Trauma interferes with the brain circuits that involve focusing, flexibility, and being able to stay in emotional control. The title underscores the book’s central idea: Exposure the abuse and violence fosters the development of a hyperactive alarm system and molds a body that gets stuck in fight/flight, and freeze. This makes for deeply personal, analytic, and highly readable (not to mention incredibly moving) approach to the topic of trauma recovery. What distinguishes THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE is that the author is both a scientific researcher with a long history of measuring the effect of trauma on brain function, memory, and treatment outcomes, and an active therapist who keeps learning from his patients what benefits them most. Having lost the sense of control of themselves and frustrated by failed therapies, they often fear that they are damaged beyond repair. New insights into our survival instincts explain why traumatized people experience incomprehensible anxiety and numbing and intolerable rage, and how trauma affects their capacity to concentrate, to remember, to form trusting relationships, and even to feel at home in their own bodies. These new paths to recovery activate the brain’s natural neuroplasticity to rewire disturbed functioning and rebuild step by step the ability to “know what you know and feel what you feel.” They also offer experiences that directly counteract the helplessness and invisibility associated with trauma, enabling both adults and children to reclaim ownership of their bodies and their lives.ĭrawing on more than thirty years at the forefront of research and clinical practice, Bessel van der Kolk shows that the terror and isolation at the core of trauma literally reshape both brain and body.
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van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal - and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.The Body Keeps the Score is the inspiring story of how a group of therapists and scientists- together with their courageous and memorable patients-has struggled to integrate recent advances in brain science, attachment research, and body awareness into treatments that can free trauma survivors from the tyranny of the past. He explores innovative treatments - from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga - that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat one in five Americans has been molested one in four grew up with alcoholics one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress StudiesĪ pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller Medical, Psychiatry, Psychology, NonfictionĮssential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.
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