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.
Creates the somatic trauma synthesis for mainstream audiences — The Body Keeps the Score's neurological account of trauma (how the brain's alarm system gets stuck in threat response, how the body expresses what the mind cannot speak) made somatic therapy approaches mainstream and drove a massive increase in EMDR and yoga therapy adoption.
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