Pathways to Healing: Exploring Expanded States of Body and Brain
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, is a pioneer clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work uniquely integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic, somatic, and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.
His #1 New York Times Science bestseller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma has been translated into 38 languages and transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, psychedelic therapy, psychodrama, mindfulness techniques, parts work, yoga, and body work. Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, developmental trauma, yoga, theater, and EMDR.
He is founder of The Trauma Research Foundation in Boston, MA, past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, and Principal Investigator at the Boston site of the MAPS sponsored MDMA-assisted psychotherapy study. He regularly teaches at universities and hospitals around the world. His webpage is besselvanderkolk.com
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