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About Our Guest: Bessel van der Kolk is a professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and president of the Trauma Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts. He’s also the bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score, which is one of the most influential modern books in the field.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:15: Imagination and aspirational thinking in healing trauma
4:55: Creativity and cultural context
6:10: Where a sense of agency begins
8:40: Why people internalize abuse
16:30: The myriad available practices for redefining past traumas
22:10: The state of psychedelic research and the importance of patient care
29:15: The need for new approaches to diagnosis and treatment
34:00: Issues with the DSM-5 and the need to integrate interpersonal processes
38:50: What counts as trauma? Collective trauma?
42:25: The need for cooperative strategies confronting trauma in pro-social movements
45:15: What helps people resource themselves to create change?
51:45: Recap
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