The Body Keeps the Score

About The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score (2014) is the most comprehensive account of trauma science ever written for a general audience — arguing that trauma is stored in the body as altered physiology, not primarily in explicit memory, and that healing requires somatic approaches (EMDR, yoga, neurofeedback, theater) alongside or instead of conventional talk therapy. It has become the standard reference text for understanding trauma.