The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By
Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel van der Kolk
2014 • 466 pages

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