The Body Keeps The Score

You know that book your friend recommended? The one that rigorously describes the science of trauma, de-stigmatizes abuse and promotes effective treatments? Well here’s the thing: It doesn't actually do that.
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Sources:
• What the Most Famous Book About Trauma Gets Wrong (motherjones.com/media/2024/12/trauma-body-keep…)
• Trauma: A Genealogy (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo…)
• Remembering Trauma (hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674018020)
• Advocates of Research-Supported Treatments for PTSD are Losing (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1049731523120…)
• Tell Me Why It Hurts (nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trauma-bessel-…)
• ‘The Body Keeps the Score’ offers uncertain science (washingtonpost.com/books/2023/08/02/body-keeps…)
• Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside (researchgate.net/profile/Joseph_Cesario/public…)
• PTSD and complex PTSD: a review of reviews (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12466117)
• What Does It Mean When 38% Forget? (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7860815)
• Multiple Identity Enactments and Multiple Personality Disorder: A Sociocognitive Perspective (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8078970)
• The Brain Is Adaptive Not Triune (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9010774)
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