Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk (born 1943 in The Hague ) is a Dutch psychiatrist and author . The focus of his work is trauma therapy and research on post-traumatic stress disorders . Van der Kolk is Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School in the United States . He became known to a wide audience in particular through his non-fiction book The Body Keeps the Score , published in 2014 , which has since been translated into numerous other languages.

Life

Bessel van der Kolk was born in the Netherlands during World War II . In 1965 he earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Hawaii . Until 1970 he studied medicine at the University of Chicago . In 1974 he completed his residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston.

In 1982 he founded the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts .

Van der Kolk, BA, ed.Post -traumatic Stress Disorder: Psychological and Biological Sequelae. Washington DC: American Psychiatric, 1984.
Van der Kolk, BA, Psychological Trauma. Washington DC: American Psychiatric, 1987.
Van der Kolk, BA, McFarlane, Alexander C., Lars Weisæth (Editor): Traumatic Stress: the effects of overwhelming experience on mind, body and society. New York: Guilford Press, 1996
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Viking , 2014. ISBN 9780670785933 .
- Embodied Horror: Traces of Trauma in the Brain, Mind and Body and How to Heal Them . Translation Theo Kierberg and Hildegard Höhr. GP Probst Verlag, Lichtenau. ISBN 978-3944476131 .

↑ Meet Our Board. TRAUMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, accessed April 10, 2020 .
↑ Curriculum Vitae Bessel van der Kolk MD Bessel Van Der Kolk, accessed on April 10, 2020 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Kolk, Bessel van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Van der Kolk, Bessel A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch-American psychiatrist, trauma therapist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	The hague