Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. has been the Medical Director of The Trauma Center in Boston for the past 30 years. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School and serves as the Director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Complex Trauma Network. He is past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Although mainly a clinician, he has published over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles on trauma, including: 1) yoga for treating PTSD, funded by the National Institutes of Health; 2) the use of theater for violence prevention in the Boston public schools, funded by the CDC; 3) the mechanisms of EMDR; 4) sensory integration; and 5) the use of neurofeedback in PTSD. He has taught at universities and hospitals around the world. Dr. van der Kolk's latest release is The New York Times bestseller "The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma". For more information, please visit: www.besselvanderkolk.com
