Dr. Bessel van der Kolk | The Body Keeps the Score: Restoring an Inner Sense of Safety

Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., is a pioneer clinician, researcher, and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work uniquely integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic, somatic, and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times Science bestseller, “The Body Keeps the Score,” and has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He is the founder of the Trauma Research Foundation in Boston, Mass.; former president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School; and principal investigator at the Boston site of the MAPS-sponsored MDMA-assisted psychotherapy study.
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Au contraire, Doctor. Many of us Americans do not see our dancing as crazy...on the contrary, we enjoy it. I suppose there are a few tight people who freak out at any expression but basically in my experience we do have these gatherings albeit too few and far between, more formalized, when I grew up in the 1950s. We have had a dance tradition in various ways and communities for all of our history. The most fun and obvious was the outbreak of motion and dance in so many forms with the awesome music movement of the 1960's. Those of us participating were predominantly people who had been traumatized in their youth. We are still enjoying the music scenes. But let me say I appreciate your spearheading and deeply sensitive work to free us children from the traumas of our families so we can bring improvement.