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Bessel A. Van Der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in Transformation of Trauma (Paperback, 2019, Penguin/Iota Publishing Limited)

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath …

A must-read to understand reactions to trauma

This is the first time I've ever gotten an explanation of repressed memories that didn't sound like bullshit, and I'm very happy for it. Kolk describes how traumatic events impact our brain function, how traumatic memories are stored differently to normal memories, and how modern therapy techniques like EMDR and neurofeedback are allowing people to finally retrain their brains in ways talk therapy and pharmaceuticals struggle to do.