The Body Keeps the Score Lib/E (Audiobook)

from DavidFerrers

This is an amazing book for anyone who has ever suffered trauma. It is giving me so much understanding about the effect that events in my early life had upon my feelings and behaviour. I am so grateful to the author for showing me the source of so many of my behaviours that I have never liked in ...

from jellyfishjones

Essential reading for anyone who works with children, who has experienced trauma themselves, or who works with adults with trauma history. This book surveys the topic at both introductory and deep levels. The first four parts all deal with what science currently knows about how trauma physically ...

from spinsterrevival

This book is packed with information on trauma and important ways to deal with it. There's a lot that's hard to listen to as the author worked with veterans as well as survivors of childhood and sexual abuse. I think though that even someone not having experienced such hardcore abuse has likely s...

from Milehighlibrarian

Outstanding resource for understanding the effects of trauma on the brain and body and therapies that can aid in recovery.

from LisCarey

This was in many ways a tough listen for me, but a good one. Van der Kolk is a psychiatrist who has worked extensively with trauma survivors. This book is about the ways traumatic experiences permanently affect us. Trauma isn't just something that happens to our bodies, and Post-Traumatic Stress ...