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The Body Keeps the Score

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Summary of The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, MD | Includes Analysis

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In The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, explores the ways in which trauma rewires the brain and changes the way people experience the world.

Trauma affects the mind and body immensely and prevents those affected from living in the present. Van der Kolk, who has researched trauma since the 1970s, first became interested in trauma after meeting with Vietnam veterans who had a very hard time living their lives after returning from the war…

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17 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
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    Trauma short circuits the normal brain process by taking the rational brain, the prefrontal cortex, offline.
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    Trauma affects the brain by hijacking the basic housekeeping system and the emotional brain, and decreasing the activity of the rational brain.
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    Trauma creates a different kind of memory than ordinary events. Unlike remembering an ordinary event, when someone experiences the memory of a traumatic event, they are virtually reliving the experience.

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