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    The Body Keeps the Score - Summarized for Busy People: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Based on the Book by Bessel van der Kolk MD
    The Body Keeps the Score - Summarized for Busy People: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Based on the Book by Bessel van der Kolk MD
    The Body Keeps the Score - Summarized for Busy People: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Based on the Book by Bessel van der Kolk MD
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    The Body Keeps the Score - Summarized for Busy People: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Based on the Book by Bessel van der Kolk MD

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    This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.

    Trauma happens in everyday life. Veterans and their families experience the aftermath of combat, one in five Americans has been molested, one in four grew up as alcoholic, one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. One of the pioneers on trauma, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has spent three decades studying how trauma shapes the body and the brain which affects the trauma victim's capacity for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He leads us through innovative treatments that offer alternative paths to recovery by activating the brain's neuroplasticity. The Body Keeps the Score shows various studies by leading experts where they expose the power relationships have in hurting and healing—and it shows hope for regaining control over our own lives.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoldmine Reads
    Release dateFeb 14, 2019
    ISBN9781386635673
    The Body Keeps the Score - Summarized for Busy People: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Based on the Book by Bessel van der Kolk MD

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      The Body Keeps the Score - Summarized for Busy People - Goldmine Reads

      PROLOGUE: FACING TRAUMA

      According to statistics, trauma happens to us daily leaving traces on our minds, emotions, and biology regardless of their nature.

      Trauma can also trigger physiological changes. Trauma causes its victims to change their behavior and, therefore, show changes in the brain. Because of this, we have created new methods of recovery which are a combination of (1) reconnecting with others and understanding oneself, (2) utilizing medicine and other technologies, and (3) letting the body experience contradictions in their feelings caused by trauma.

      Van der Kolk wrote this book to help trauma victims and to serve as a call-to-action for everyone to avoid inflicting trauma on others.

      PART ONE: THE REDISCOVERY OF TRAUMA

      CHAPTER 1

      LESSONS FROM THE VIETNAM VETERANS

      Tom was part of the Marines and had served in Vietnam. It was because of this experience that he distanced himself from people in order to keep from hurting them. He would relax by drinking and riding his motorcycles at top speed. He tried to live a normal life but he felt disconnected from his family and from the pleasures of life.

      Van der Kolk began to focus on Tom’s nightmares so he prescribed medication. However, Tom didn’t want to forget the people who died in Vietnam, so, van der Kolk started studying posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and his teacher, Elvin Semrad, taught him that the only way to learn is from the patients themselves.

      TRAUMA AND THE LOSS OF SELF

      Tom talked about the ambush where his dear friend, Alex, passed and this became the source of his trauma. It was because of this that he killed children and raped a Vietnamese woman—and he couldn’t come home to face his sweetheart and son. Trauma causes people to have difficulty in engaging in intimacy. This can also cause self-doubt.

      NUMBING

      He became emotionally numb and distant, so, he began distracting himself with his law practice because, without it, his nightmares would come back. He also began isolating himself from his family.

      THE REORGANIZATION OF PERCEPTION

      Through the study of nightmares, van der Kolk understood how trauma can change someone’s perception and imagination.

      A former medic from the war in Vietnam, Bill, was triggered by the sounds and images of dying children every time his newborn child cried. His results on the Rorschach inkblots also reflected his flashbacks of the traumatic experience, while other patients claimed that the tests were just a bunch of ink. It’s because of this that van der Kolk understood how victims tend to (1) superimpose their trauma on everything they experience or (2) suppress the mind’s flexibility.

      STUCK IN TRAUMA

      Van der Kolk’s group therapy consisted of war veterans who, when asked about their current lives, would recount their past traumatic experiences instead. Their pain became their sole source of meaning. They had forgotten to live in the

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