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Kroppen håller räkningen : Hjärna, sinne och kropp vid läkning efter psykiskt trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
4.27 AVERAGE
8.81k reviews for:
Kroppen håller räkningen : Hjärna, sinne och kropp vid läkning efter psykiskt trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
4.27 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
Informative with both science and examples
“I wish I could separate trauma from politics, but as long
as we continue to live in denial and treat only trauma while ignoring its origins, we are bound to fail. In today's world your ZIP code, even more than your genetic code, determines whether you will lead a safe and healthy life.”
as we continue to live in denial and treat only trauma while ignoring its origins, we are bound to fail. In today's world your ZIP code, even more than your genetic code, determines whether you will lead a safe and healthy life.”
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I've tried to write this review several times, but none of them felt like a true representation. I can say that the period of my life spent reading this book has been one of the most informative and formative. Nobody can teach emotional intelligence, but this comes pretty close.
So many aspects of trauma are still a mystery and the path to recovery is elusive. One thing it for sure is not is an Oscar-worthy collapse into tears. Or even a story with a beginning and end, at first. It can be the loss of the sense of self. It can be a numbing. It can be an out-of-body experience. Maybe it's still a shadow lying just beyond the veil of consciousness and memory. And it affects our bodies on practically every level (gastrointestinal, geneological, mental, intergenerational). Every new chapter is a new groundbreaking finding.
Sitting in this space and hearing about how people dealt with their trauma was a masterclass in empathy. In some cases, I found the structure of this book hard to parse. Also, some of the traumatic experiences and themes were handled in a very clinical way that borders on callous and aloof. The absence of a moral system in this book is also something I can anticipate readers taking issue with. It's really hard to mention childhood trauma in the same breath as wartime PTSD, and I would like the book to have given the social precursors a little more thought. But there's only so much you can cover in a book of this scale, so I can hold some reservations.
So many aspects of trauma are still a mystery and the path to recovery is elusive. One thing it for sure is not is an Oscar-worthy collapse into tears. Or even a story with a beginning and end, at first. It can be the loss of the sense of self. It can be a numbing. It can be an out-of-body experience. Maybe it's still a shadow lying just beyond the veil of consciousness and memory. And it affects our bodies on practically every level (gastrointestinal, geneological, mental, intergenerational). Every new chapter is a new groundbreaking finding.
Sitting in this space and hearing about how people dealt with their trauma was a masterclass in empathy. In some cases, I found the structure of this book hard to parse. Also, some of the traumatic experiences and themes were handled in a very clinical way that borders on callous and aloof. The absence of a moral system in this book is also something I can anticipate readers taking issue with. It's really hard to mention childhood trauma in the same breath as wartime PTSD, and I would like the book to have given the social precursors a little more thought. But there's only so much you can cover in a book of this scale, so I can hold some reservations.
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“Trauma is now our most urgent public health issue, and we have the knowledge necessary to respond effectively. The choice is ours to act on what we know.”
‘The Body Keeps the Score’ is a thorough, accessible and relentlessly engaging account of Psychology’s understanding of trauma, from its origins to its neurophysiological effects to its outward presentations and ramifications to its potential treatments. Beneath it all is a call to action: We have the tools to treat this condition—and the myriad of conditions, daily sufferings and societal ills that stem from it—but we must choose to heed the research and take the appropriate action. This issue needs more attention and it needs the acceptance, funding and commitment that it deserves. If we take such action, the whole of society will benefit.
I found ‘The Body Keeps the Score’ to be an incredibly informative and enlightening read, and I thoroughly recommend it. However, the extensive inclusion of highly detailed and potentially triggering material perhaps makes it unsuitable for people who are themselves living with trauma. Furthermore, given that over ten years have now passed since this book was published, it is likely that much has changed in terms of current thinking and policies, and it would be useful to have a revised edition to reflect this.
I found that this book gave me a great deal of hope—trauma CAN be treated. However, this hope was replaced by a sense of frustration and helplessness when I tried to find the therapeutic interventions recommended, only to find access to them is extremely limited, especially outside of the United States, and that the treatment that is available is often priced in a way that is prohibitive. This frustration only compounds when you take into account the fact that those dealing with trauma are the least likely to have such means to fund treatment.
As the author asserts, trauma is perhaps the most urgent public health issue of our time—maybe even more so now than when the book was written. It is about time that it was acknowledged, and it is about time that we saw changes in policy and treatment options and availability in accordance with this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail
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