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lsatterthw 's review for:
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
medium-paced
this book, as many others have said, is filled with anecdotes and studies with few participants. I think it is a valuable read for someone who is trying to understand whys someone that they care about is acting in a certain way after a traumatic event. I think people that said that it was overly sympathetic to war criminals are somewhat right, but also it's not the author's job to prosecute war crimes. Only to try and help the person in front of them return to themselves. But, these topics could have been approach in a more sensitive way, I feel.