Bessel van der Kolk: Fluid, Alive, and Optimistic

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Bessel van der Kolk is a clinician, teacher, author, and one of the most esteemed researchers on post-traumatic stress in the world. A veteran professor at universities and hospitals across the United States, Bessel is the New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body and the Treatment of Trauma. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Bessel speak on his many decades researching trauma. They talk about recent developments in the treatment of trauma—specifically the effectiveness of such methods as EMDR, psycho-dramatics, yoga, and introception. Lastly, they discuss the healing of trauma at a societal level and why—despite the suffering he has encountered over the years—Bessel is essentially optimistic about humanity's ability to heal. (61 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
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0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events.
0:14.0	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.0	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Dr. Bessel-Vandercoke. Dr.
0:45.6	Vandercoke has been active as a clinician, researcher, and teacher in the area of post-traumatic
0:51.9	stress since the 1970s.
0:55.0	Past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies,
1:00.0	Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School,
1:05.0	and Medical Director of the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute
1:09.6	in Brookline, Massachusetts,
1:11.7	Dr. Vandercoke has taught at universities and hospitals
1:15.1	across the United States and around the world. He's the author of the New York Times
1:20.5	best-selling book, The Body Keeps the Score.
1:24.0	Brain, Mind, and Body in the treatment of trauma.
1:28.0	In this episode of Insights at The Edge,
1:30.0	Dr. Banderkoke and I spoke about his three decades of research that informed
1:36.2	the book The Body Keeps the Score.
1:38.9	We also talked about how an essential part of healing trauma is the development of interoception,
1:46.0	a self-sensing ability that enables us to feel what we're experiencing in any given moment.
1:54.0	We talked about how trauma healing needs to occur at the level of the organism
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