Bessel Bessel van der Kolk

Boston University School of Medicine; author of “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma”

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Author of “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma,” and professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine.

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