The world’s leading trauma researcher and author of the New York Times bestseller The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk has transformed the way we understand and treat PTSD.
A professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School who’s worked with trauma survivors for more than 30 years, he’s shown how we can tap into the body’s here-and-now healing energy by going outside conventional therapy methods to incorporate the therapeutic benefits of sports, martial arts, yoga, and theater.
Recently, he’s helped bring awareness to the healing potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy, continuing his advocacy for therapeutic innovation in ways that bypass the emotional brain’s notorious resistance to modification by reason or understanding.
