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A review by neuroff
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Classism
the book is an interesting study in how trauma fundamentally changes our biology and relationship to the world but does so in an intensely aggressive way. It’s not the best representation of intersectional trauma.