Bessel A. van der Kolk

Quotes

• “Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discom...”
• “Mary was my first encounter with dissociative identity disorder (DID), which at that time was called multiple personalit...”
• “In the culture people talk about trauma as an event that happened a long time ago. But what trauma is, is the imprints t...”
• “As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is a...”
• “Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leave...”
• “While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until th...”