The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessel van der Kolk
Adults
How trauma reshapes the body and brain, and the therapies that help people recover.
Heads-up for parents: Abuse, Violence. Worth reading it yourself first.
- Author
- Bessel van der Kolk
- Age
- For grown-ups
- Type
- Conscious Living, Non-fiction
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Readers rate it
- 4.33 / 5 on Goodreads
- In India
- Available
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