Quotes by : Bessel A. van der Kolk

Generally the rational brain can override the emotional brain, as long as our fears don’t hijack us.....

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our....

EMDR is a bizarre and wondrous treatment and anybody who first hears about it, myself included, thinks....

In the culture people talk about trauma as an event that happened a long time ago. But what trauma is,....

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself.

BEFRIENDING THE BODY Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations....

I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I couldn’t....

It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed young....

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The....

Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug treatments....