3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Dutch-American psychiatrist — founder of the Trauma Research Foundation — author of The Body Keeps the Score — who brought somatic (body-based) trauma therapy to mainstream attention and is the most cited psychiatrist on trauma.
Bessel van der Kolk's 2014 book — arguing that trauma is stored in the body's nervous system and that somatic therapies (EMDR, yoga, theater) can heal what talk therapy cannot — the best-selling psychiatry book of the 2010s.
Sebastian Junger's 2016 book arguing that humans are wired for tribal belonging — shared purpose, mutual obligation, facing adversity together — and that modern affluent individualistic society fails to provide these conditions, producing depression, PTSD, and purposelessness.