Author
Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist who spent decades studying the aftermath of severe trauma — war, violence, disaster. He is one of the people who insisted that medicine look not only at a traumatized person's thoughts, but at their body and nervous system too.
Books in Livria
- The Body Keeps the Score
Why has your mind long since decided it's “all behind you,” while your hands still go numb, your sleep keeps breaking, and your heart pounds at a harmless sound? Van der Kolk explains that a hard experience settles not…