The Body Keeps the Score

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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.

This inspiring and timeless audiobook is read by Sean Pratt.

'An astonishing and important book. The trauma Bible. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone struggling with...well...anything' Tara Westover

'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

© Bessel van der Kolk 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

Critics Review

  • 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
  • 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, M.D., author of Trauma and Recovery
  • A seminal book that outlines the author’s pioneering work

    Vogue
  • Draws on 30 years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma is one of the West’s most urgent public health issues… Packed with science and human stories … van der Kolk has a lot to say, and the struggle and resilience of his patients is very moving

    New Scientist
  • A gripping bestseller about where trauma goes, and its disastrous effects on both individuals and societies. Deeply interesting.

    Times
  • A masterpiece of powerful understanding and brave heartedness, one of the most intelligent and helpful works on trauma I have ever read. . . a brilliant synthesis of clinical cases, neuroscience, powerful tools and caring humanity, offering a whole new level of healing

    Jack Kornfied, author of A Path With Heart

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