Bessel van der Kolk How Trauma Lodges in the Body

Published: Dec. 26, 2019, 4:15 p.m.

b'Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is an innovator in treating the effects of overwhelming experiences. We call this \\u201ctrauma\\u201d when we encounter it in life and news, and we tend to leap to address it by talking. But Bessel van der Kolk knows how some experiences imprint themselves beyond where language can reach. He explores state-of-the-art therapeutic treatments \\u2014 including body work like yoga and eye movement therapy \\u2014 and shares what he and others are learning on this edge of humanity about the complexity of memory, our need for others, and how our brains take care of our bodies.'