Summary of The Body Keeps the Score: by Bessel van der Kolk, MD | Includes Analysis

This “summary” is actually just a total of 7 pages briefly outlining the factors in the original book. It is not a summary nor does it offer insights into how and why this book is important to the field of trauma. Definitely buy the original text as this “summary” misses much of the foundations of the subject and barely mentions the research which provides the basis for it.

While listening to radio 4 recently I then went on your site tobuy The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk. What Ieventually decided to buy was a shorter version of Mr Kolks book.This is a summary of the whole book. Because I suffer with depression and anxiety and have had panicattacks in recent years I was very interested in how Kolk had donecase studies in America of soldiers who came back from the VietnamWar and had to suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Also the book has verygood analysis of a persons up bringing and how our parenting, events in ourlives and where we are born can dictate how healthy in a mental capacity ourlives become.I recommend this book highly in particular if you have suffered or are suffering withmental illness, stress, anxiety and all that is involved in feeling ill in this way.Very Helpful.Thank You.Craig

Very helpful to have summary of this excellent book

Helpful - more condensed that I'd thought

A useful summary of the main book, allowing the reader to choose relevant chapters as needed.

The voice sounds computerised and loses all the dynamics of this amazing book

Everything about my purchase is satisfactory.

I bought the AUDIBLE BOOK version, paid for it. Only afterwards did it become clear that one has to have an account with a company called AUDIBLE BOOKS and pay a monthly fee. I had thought I could simply have my Apple laptop read it. The Amazon site did not warn about this, so I wasted money and have little time to be involved in the crap of reclaiming and complaining about bad geek communication. There should have been a warning saying: In order to read this audible book, you will need to have an account and pay a monthly fee to a company called "Audible Books". Why did the geeks of Amazon, normally quite wonderful communicators compared to others, think of this simple fact??? Duh!