Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has spent 30 years figuring out why people behave so strangely. His specialty is treating those who have endured traumas so horrific—war, carnage, incredible pain that they ...

The word trauma comes from the Greek word meaning “to wound.” Once reserved as a term for the lingering effect of particular horrific events on those who endured them, trauma is now seen—for better or ...

Following his termination from the treatment center he founded 35 years ago for alleged misconduct, renowned trauma researcher, author, and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is speaking out in ...

Bessel Van der Kolk MD’s #1 New York Times Science best seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma (translated... more into 43 languages),transforms our ...