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Bessel Van der Kolk on Trauma, America’s Favorite Diagnosis

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Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.

Bessel van der Kolk at his home in Massachusetts. Photo: Frankie Alduino This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. It’s bad news when your university creates a committee to ensure that you don’t publish any research papers without its approval. It’s worse news if the only other person facing similar scrutiny is a man investigating alien abductions. This was the situation facing the trauma researcher Bessel van der Kolk in the mid-’90s when Harvard Medical School informed him that all of his future publications

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