9/26/2023 0 Comments The body keeps the score![]() ![]() Van Der Kolk's activist agenda, he's actually a pretty reputable (Harvard affiliated) scientist and clinician and widely regarded as one the the worlds foremost authorities on trauma and trauma sequelae (yes I used the term seguelae twice in the same review, actually three times if you count the time I just used sequallia in this parentheses, oops, better make that four).Īnd, yes, Dr. It's like, organically, cosmically, spin your chakras at a dead show good.Īnd despite Dr. ![]() It's extremely, extremely triple extremely good. I did eventually get over myself (and my hippy phobia) and got the book and man is it good. It was an intrusive mental image of a patchouli smelling, chubby middle aged hippy chick in a mauve knit poncho sweater and dream catcher earrings saying "your fifth level is emitting too much teal energy" and I reflexively withdrew my enthusiasm for the whole somatically oriented trauma treatment program.Īnyway. When I first saw that the book was released, I was like "hey, that looks pretty good" but then I had a flash back from the psychotherapy conference. A mindfulness based variant of CBT which is incidentally a "hippy as fuck" therapeutic modality by many standards. Which, by the way, is Acceptance Comment Therapy (ACT). Perhaps it was at that point I unconsciously gripped up and rejected somatic trauma work (again) in favor of the more "masculine" "serious" "evidence based", behaviorally oriented, here and now stuff that I currently practice. I was loving what he was saying, the parts I could understand any way (he speaks in a thick Dutch accent), but I also remember looking around the room and thinking "I have to distinguish myself from these nutty hippies". I was probably still up in my head about all that when I was listening to Dr. So I somewhat consciously but mostly unconsciously tried to distance myself from my own freaky roots. When I entered the field I was dreadfully afraid no one would take me seriously. I have practiced yoga and meditation for over 30 years. I went to art school as an undergraduate. I came to therapy from an unconventional "hippyish" background. I myself lived in the Bay Area for around a decade. A pathological shame that was clearly a sequallia of my own dark hippy shadow. There are lots of mental health professionals (even ones from the Bay Area) that are highly functional, sober, top notch folks.īut there are also a bunch of kooky, crazy as fuck people in the field (Particularly in the Bay Area), and there were a bunch in the crowd, and I think I was feeling a bit (or perhaps a lot) of shame for my profession. Perhaps my experience was negativity impacted by the mass, prolonged exposure to the unwashed throngs of other psychotherapists (never a good thing), some of whom were from the San Francisco Bay Area (a deadly combination).ĭon't get me wrong. But something about the experience as a whole left me feeling woozy. He was awesome, and he really reinvigorated my interest in doing somatically oriented trauma work. ![]() Bessel Van Der Kolk lecture at the Evolution of Psychotherapy conference in 2013. But I quickly rejected the model when I realized it was way outside the mainstream and lacked randomized control trials (RCT) that demonstrated its effectiveness compared to other "first line" treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE). When I entered the mental health field I had intended to specialize in Somatic Experiencing (SE) trauma therapy. It's changing the way I do therapy and it's changing the way a interpret human behavior. It's a rich treasure trove of information from the frontiers of trauma research, etiology, diagnosis and treatment. This is my fave book of the year so far, by a bunch. 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. 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. A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing ![]()
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