Psychological Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

Psychological Trauma Reviews

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  Owlseyes

  
  
  
  
  After listening to him for some minutes, I find his thoughts enough appealing: (1) we have an "insane/stupid" diagnostics system; (2) it seems drugs won't do the real healing work (on people with traumas); (3) a therapist/healer should be a "real diagnostician" not a labeller [my expression]; (4) love and hate are part of the human species drives, though he had stopped being "optimistic" about the species, in 2003, after the Iraq intervention due to the 9/11 events.(5) Love is a key component in the healing process.
  
  Some of his family stories are amazing and illustrating (his father under the Nazi regime, being a fundamentalist Christian...).
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  Cynthia

  I also went to a week long seminar with Bessel. Amazing speaker and his ideas are terrific and astute. The book is excellent.
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  Erika

  I read this a very long time ago... very helpful