Quotes by : Bessel A. van der Kolk

Mary was my first encounter with dissociative identity disorder (DID), which at that time was called....

When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable....

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

Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a....

Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a....

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing....

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....

While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece....

As I discussed in the previous chapter, attachment researchers have shown that our earliest caregivers....