Bessel Van der Kolk, author of “The Body Keeps the Score,” on how trauma became America’s favorite diagnosis. The psychiatrist’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.
Traumatic experiences get lodged in people's brains and bodies as a sense of threat and to heal they must rediscover a sense of safety, says psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.
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