Bessel van der Kolk, MD | The Body Keeps the Score [Best of]
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Recent years have impacted our mental and physical health significantly. We are constantly faced with unsettling moments that leave a lasting impact, often unnoticed but affecting us all. The question is, how do we address this?
My guest this week is renowned trauma researcher, psychiatrist, and author, Bessel van der Kolk, known for his New York Times bestseller, The Body Keeps the Score. In 1984, Bessel established one of the first centers in the US for traumatic stress research and treatment, pioneering the study of trauma's effects on the brain. His work gave rise to the Trauma Research Foundation, created new treatment models, studied neurofeedback and MDMA's effects, and facilitated numerous trainings across the nation.
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| 0:00.0 | The thing that people don't talk enough about to my mind is that when you get traumatized, |
| 0:04.8 | it makes it very difficult to learn important new life skills and to grow and to mature in some |
| 0:11.3 | ways. Because you keep getting stuck on, I'm a little child who's getting hurt and you don't |
| 0:16.6 | have the opportunity to really feel how this one feels like doing an adult who is more or less in |
| 0:20.8 | charge of their own lives. So these last few years, they've dealt a lot of blood |
| 0:27.1 | to our state of mind, body and health and on some level, it's been hard to escape some form of |
| 0:32.4 | trauma. Even if you can't point to a big capital T thing that happened, we live in this |
| 0:37.8 | perpetualcy of micro moments that unsettle, upset and shake us in a way that can leave a mark. |
| 0:44.8 | Whether we know it's there or not, whether we realize or acknowledge it, it's affecting so many |
| 0:49.7 | of us. You meet pretty much everyone on some level. The question is what do we do about that? |
| 0:55.0 | This is the very question I explore with my guest this week, Bessel Vanderkohl, |
| 0:59.5 | legendary trauma researcher psychiatrist, an author of a book that has been locked onto the number |
| 1:04.8 | one spot on the New York Times bestseller list for years now, the body keeps the score and the very |
| 1:10.4 | fact that it has been there speaks to the pervasiveness of what so many have been feeling. |
| 1:16.0 | In 1984, Bessel established one of the first clinical research centers in the US, |
| 1:20.9 | dedicated to the study and treatment of traumatic stress in civilian populations while |
| 1:25.5 | also training researchers and clinicians, specializing in the study and treatment of traumatic stress. |
| 1:30.9 | He was a member of the first neuroimaging team to investigate how trauma actually changes the |
| 1:36.1 | brain and his efforts led to the establishment of the Trauma Research Foundation, developing new |
| 1:41.2 | treatment models that are widely taught and implemented nationwide. A research lab that |
| 1:46.0 | studies the effects of neurofeedback and MDMA on behavior and mood and executive functioning |
| 1:52.2 | and numerous trainings nationwide to a variety of mental health professionals and educators, |
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