Just a quick note this morning before I go to work.
Darwi, my blog pal who lived through the Bosnian War and who encouraged me to seek help, recommended the book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014) by Bessel van der Kolk.
[Excerpt at U Chicago Library--the excerpt is all one big text block, but it's complete (google books skips pages).]
I ordered it on Ebay, and in the meantime I've watched some videos by the author.
Van der Kolk was born in 1943 in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. I feel extra trust in people who know about trauma firsthand, and I relate to van der Kolk saying in this 8-min. interview (below) that the question for him, coming from his life experience, is how people can be so unbelievably cruel.
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