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The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

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What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? This book offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.'Fascinating, hard to put down, and filled with powerful case histories. . . . the most important series of breakthroughs in mental health in the last thirty years' Norman Doidge, author of The Brain that Changes Itself 'An astonishing and important book. The trauma Bible. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone struggling with...well...anything' Tara Westover

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
560
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:
9780141978611
Published Date:
24/9/2015
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 24mm
Weight:
385g
Category:
Complementary therapies, healing & health

RRP: £12.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780141978611


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