#217: Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk - Understanding & Healing Trauma

Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk is a psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator based in Boston, USA. Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress. He is the author of The New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score. Bessel Van der Kolk served as a past president for the International Society for Traumatic stress Studies and former co-director of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. He is a professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and president of the Trauma Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts. Topics discussed: - Are we all traumatised? - What causes trauma? - What is disassociation? - How does trauma appear in the body? - EMDR, psychedelics and Yoga - The role of talk therapy - Post traumatic growth? - Much more Connect: freedompact at gmail . com https://www.youtube.com/c/FreedomPact... (video interviews) https://freedompact.co.uk/newsletter​​​​ (Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Newsletter) https://instagram.com/freedompact​​​ https://www.besselvanderkolk.com