The Body Keeps the Score

这本书最锋利的地方，在于它把'想明白'和'好起来'彻底分开。作者花了三十年和创伤幸存者相处，得出的核心判断是：谈话治疗唤起的洞察力，很难阻止杏仁核继续发送危险信号，也按不下身体长期处于逃生状态的那根开关。创伤不是想通就能放下的往事，它会真实地改写大脑的布线，刻进心率、肌肉和免疫系统里——这就是书名那句'身体从未忘记'的来历。正因如此，疗愈的起点往往不是语言，而是重新学会安住自己的身体、重建安全的人际关系。它适合那些'道理都懂却仍被困在过去里'的人，也适合想理解创伤如何代际传递的读者。当然，书中后半部分列举的瑜伽、冥想等疗法并非万能钥匙，作者自己也不讳言'没有任何一种方式适合所有人'。

Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. has been the Medical Director of The Trauma Center in Boston for the past 30 years. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School and serves as the Director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Complex Trauma Network. He is past President of International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Though he identifies himself primarily as a clinician, he has published well over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles on various aspects of trauma, including his current projects: 1) yoga for treating PTSD, funded by the National Institutes of Health; 2) the use of theater for violence prevention in the Boston public schools, funded by the CDC; 3) the mechanisms of EMDR; 4) sensory integration; and 5) the use of neurofeedback in PTSD. He participated in the first neuroimaging study of PTSD, in the first study to link Borderline Personality Disorder with childhood trauma; was co-principal investigator of the DSM IV Field Trial for PTSD and is chair of the NCTSN DSM V workgroup on Developmental Trauma Disorder. He has written extensively about using neuroscience research to identify appropriate treatments for PTSD and completed the first NIMH-funded study of EMDR. He has taught at universities and hospitals around the world.