Quotes by : Bessel A. van der Kolk

Eighty two percent of the traumatized children seen in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network do....

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

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....

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

Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event....

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

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