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Books by Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk is a Dutch-born psychiatrist and researcher who spent much of his career at Boston University School of Medicine and as medical director of the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute in Massachusetts. He has studied trauma for more than four decades, starting with Vietnam veterans at the VA in the 1970s. His research has focused on neurobiological aspects of PTSD, developmental trauma, and body-based treatment approaches including EMDR and yoga. He is also the author of Psychological Trauma and has published widely in academic journals. The Body Keeps the Score, published in 2014, became a long-running bestseller and is widely used in clinical…