Bessel van der Kolk

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.

Creates the somatic trauma framework for popular audiences — The Body Keeps the Score's argument (that trauma is stored in the body's nervous system, not just in cognitive memory, and that body-based therapies — EMDR, yoga, theater — are often more effective than talk therapy) is the most accessible synthesis of the somatic trauma literature.