The book is well indexed and each section of the book is clearly labelled maintaining the transformation of trauma thread all the way through the book.
The case studies illustrating a person’s experience help provide the relevant context needed for understanding each chapter in its own right. What is helpful about the book is that each section or chapter of information can be read and understood as a stand alone piece making it a book that you can dip in and out of without having to begin at the beginning each time. The book takes you on a trauma journey from the eyes of people who have experienced trauma or helped with it. This book explains why this is again normalising a person’s experience of trauma. As a practitioner who works everyday with trauma another difficulty people might experience after trauma is their perceived inability to ‘get over it’ even many years later. Gaining insight from this book in relation to the commonalities of how people respond to trauma helps the reader feel normal.
What is great about the book is that in my experience one of the difficulties people have when trying to get over trauma is questioning their response to the trauma or their role within it. If you have experienced trauma or therapy to help you process the trauma this book will have a wealth of information to help you. Essentially our experience of it and how it affects us, to remembering trauma and what we can do to help ourselves recover from it. What I like about it is that the order and thread of the book takes the reader on the journey of trauma. Examples include attachment trauma, abuse and big T trauma.
This book paints a comprehensive picture of the different types of trauma as well as how it might affect the mind, brain and body. The Body Keeps the Score is written from thirty years of real-life experience and research giving it a solid grounding. It is written by Bessel Van Der Kolk a Dutch born psychiatrist, educator and author with over thirty years of experience working with people who have experienced trauma.
The Body Keeps the Score is a book you would read to learn about the physiology and science of trauma, people’s experience of trauma and ways that a person might recover from it.
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