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

In this video, I analyze what is perhaps the best selling book in the history of psychiatry. Recorded September 2022.

Danese, A., Moffitt, T. E., Arseneault, L., Bleiberg, B. A., Dinardo, P. B., Gandelman, S. B., . . . Caspi, A. (2017). The origins of cognitive deficits in victimized children: Implications for neuroscientists and clinicians. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174, 349-361. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16030333

DiGangi, J. A., Gomez, D., Mendoza, L., Jason, L. A., Keys, C. B., & Koenen, K. C. (2013). Pretrauma risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review of the literature. Clinical Psychology Review, 33, 728-744. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2013.05.002

Scheeringa MS (2021) Reexamination of diathesis stress and neurotoxic stress theories: A qualitative review of pre-trauma neurobiology in relation to posttraumatic stress symptoms. nternational Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 30:e1864. doi: 10.1002/mpr.1864