TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kolk, Bessel Van Der 
TI  - The body keeps the score : : brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma / 
SN  - 9780141978611
U1  - 616.8521206 
PY  - 2015///.
CY  - India : 
PB  - Penguin Books, 
KW  - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
KW  - Physiopathology
KW  - therapy
KW  - Post-traumatic stress disorder
KW  - Psychic trauma
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Mind and body therapies
KW  - Neuropsychology
KW  - Neuroplasticity
KW  - Mental healing
KW  - Emotions
N1  - Contents: Lessons from Vietnam veterans -- Revolutions in understanding mind and brain -- Looking into the brain : the neuroscience revolution -- Running for your life : the anatomy of survival -- Body-brain connections -- Losing your body, losing your self -- Getting on the same wavelength : attachment and attunement -- Trapped in relationships : the cost of abuse and neglect -- What's love got to do with it? -- Developmental trauma : the hidden epidemic -- Uncovering secrets : the problem of traumatic memory -- The unbearable heaviness of remembering -- Healing from trauma : owning your self -- Language : miracle and tyranny -- Letting go of the past: EMDR -- Learning to inhabit your body : yoga -- Putting the pieces together : self-leadership -- Filling in the holes : creating structures -- Rewiring the brain : neurofeedback -- Finding your voice : communal rhythms and theater -- Epilogue : trauma and society
N2  - 'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.

'Fascinating, hard to put down, and filled with powerful case histories. . . . the most important series of breakthroughs in mental health in the last thirty years' Norman Doidge, author of The Brain that Changes Itself

'An astonishing and important book. The trauma Bible. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone struggling with...well...anything' Tara Westover
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