The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk · first published 2014 · ISBN 9786047769520
Van der Kolk explains how trauma rewires the brain and nervous system, living in the body rather than only in memory. He describes how traditional talk therapy alone can miss this embodied dimension and explores somatic approaches (yoga, neurofeedback, movement, art). The book translates neuroscience into clinical understanding of how past experiences shape present functioning.
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Many clients walking into your office carry trauma written into their nervous systems. This book teaches you to recognize how past events inhabit the body and gives you frameworks for working with that reality.