There is the “ah” of education that must be accompanied by the “ah hah” of direct experience. I have always believed that providers need to be patients in the modalities that they train in, not simply receive the training. The first is intuition both of the patient and the provider. Who knows where the future of brain based medicine for the treatment of trauma is going? If we are to figure it out together we need to listen to three things. That must tell us something about what he thinks about them. He sits on several boards of both longer term treatment facilities and credentialing bodies of therapy modalities. van der Kolk”? Anyhow, if Bessel wrote a book today what would he say? How has his perspective on trauma treatment changed over the past ten years? What would he write about being the new future of trauma treatment after most of the predictions in his current book came true?īased on his past professional decisions we could make certain guesses about what would happen if he had to write the book again today. I’m not really sure how you suffix dutch names. Each frequency is a different mode of cognition. The brain is made up of hundreds of neurons that communicate by vibrating at different frequencies. This is another reason for its profound success. The confessional tone makes the author’s perspective as both a patient and provider of trauma treatment dually educational to both patients and providers. It has been highly educational to seasoned therapists and patients alike.

The book is different from other exposés on trauma treatment in that it is candid about the sordid history of trauma in psychology, and honest about the unfortunate current state of the profession of psychotherapy.Īnother thing that makes the book a unicorn is that it is not only readable by lay people but also does not dumb anything down.

The Body Keeps the Score was published almost a decade ago and its influence on the profession of trauma treatment has been profound. For now that will have to stay between them. I am sure his publishers have offered him an enormous cash advance for a follow up. I have no idea if he would or what Bessel van der Kolk would write as a sequel to The Body Keeps the Score. If anyone is familiar with the book The Body Keeps the Score, by world renowned physician Bessel van der Kolk, the title of this article is obvious hyperbole. Neurons in the brain can become stuck in one mode of cognition after a traumatic event. What if Bessel van der Kolk wrote a sequel to his influential book on trauma today?

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