Healing from Trauma | Bessel van der Kolk, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Philosophy, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 267 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Though often invisible in our society, studies have shown that more than seven out of ten people experience trauma at some point in their lives, whether it's physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or a life-threatening accident or illness. In this episode, we speak with Bessel van der Kolk, MD, a psychiatrist and pioneering researcher on post-traumatic stress. His 2014 book, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, spent 27 weeks at the top of the New York Times...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Henry Bear.
0:03.0	And I'm Tyler Johnson.
0:05.0	And you're listening to The Doctors Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.
0:09.0	Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered.
0:13.2	What makes medicine meaningful?
0:15.1	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning
0:17.2	create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build health care institutions
0:20.6	that nurture the doctor-patient connection.
0:23.0	What can we learn about the human condition
0:25.0	from accompanying our patients in times of suffering?
0:28.0	In seeking answers to these questions,
0:30.0	we meet with deep thinkers working across health care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.
0:40.0	Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that are by turns heart-breaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.
0:49.0	We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do.
0:53.0	Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.
0:59.0	Though often invisible or suppressed in our society, studies have shown that more than 7 out of 10 people
1:05.6	experienced trauma at some point in their lives, whether it's physical,
1:10.0	sexual, emotional abuse, or a life-threatening accident illness or injury.
1:15.6	In this episode, we speak with Dr. Bessel Venderkolk, a psychiatrist and pioneering researcher
1:21.9	on post-traumatic stress.
1:24.1	His 2014 book, The Body Keeps the Score.
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