…acting out of choice, there'd be no justification at all for the war on drugs. None whatsoever. Zero. Now, as Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, whose work you might know, he's a professor of psychiatry at Boston University and a world expert on trauma, said that…

…the last several decades that the template for normal brain development is no longer present for many, many kids. And Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, who is a professor of psychiatry at Boston, University of Boston, He actually says that the neglect or abuse of…

…the last several decades that the template for normal brain development is no longer present. for many, many kids. And Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, who is a professor of psychiatry at Boston, University of Boston, he actually says that the neglect or abuse of…

…body, and all of a sudden you're overwhelmed by emotion. You've had that experience? So that's the body. As Bessel says, Bessel van der Kolk, the body keeps the score. So the trauma is embedded also in the muscles and in the connective tissues and the…

…Or at least what do I understand what it means to be a human being? Now, I'll quote you from my friend Bessel van der Kolk, trauma psychiatrist, he said once that our culture teaches us to focus on our personal uniqueness but on a deeper level we…

…Well, look, The number three bestselling books in New York Times last week was The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, who's a trauma psychiatrist. That's astonishing. It's 17 this morning on Amazon. My books, they haven't been as mega sellers…

…lots of other people, but there are other people. delivering this kind of message. You know, Peter Levine on trauma, Bessel van der Kolk on trauma, Joan Borisenko on stress. Lots of people now, relatively speaking, compared to a little while ago, are now…

…people get upset. You know, why are you getting into politics? This isn't politics. Straightforward. There's a great trauma psychiatrist, Bessel van der Kolk, whose book is a big bestseller in New York Times, bestseller of the last 280 weeks. And he said…

…the last several decades that the template for normal brain development is no longer present for many, many kids. And Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, who is a professor of psychiatry at Boston, University of Boston, He actually says that the neglect or abuse of…

…to the medical profession and certainly to governments. So the people that are in jail, so there's an American psychiatrist, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, many of you may know his work on stress and trauma, and he says that 100% of the inmates of the…

…experience joy when my grandparents died in ashes? I quote this in The Myth of Normal, my friend and colleague and teacher, Bessel van der Kolk, psychiatrist who wrote the book, The Body Keeps the Score. He said to me once, Gabor, you don't have to drag…

…the absolute need for power, which incidentally arise from his own very traumatic childhood. One of my friends and colleagues, Bessel van der Kolk, a psychiatrist, wrote a book called But Body Keeps the Score. He says that Trump is a poster boy for…

…doesn't address how so many people can't do that skill. Right. Fair enough. That reminds me of a conversation I had with Bessel van der Kolk, who's another trauma expert, and him and I were presenting at a conference in New York, and sitting at a table…

…experience joy when my grandparents died in ashes? I quote this in The Myth of Normal, my friend and colleague and teacher, Bessel van der Kolk, psychiatrist who wrote the book, The Body Keeps the Score. He said to me once, Gabor, you don't have to drag…

…paperback in this country, week after week after week, is a book on trauma by my friend and teacher and colleague, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. It's called The Body Keeps the Score. The Body Keeps the Score. Yeah, it's not an easy read. I mean, in a…

…at the Breath of Life conference, and one of the co-speakers was the great trauma psychiatrist, my friend of mine, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. And Bessel says in his book, The Body Keeps the Score, our culture teaches us to focus on personal uniqueness, but…

…completely alone. Because whether we're alone or not does not depend on how many friends we have. And again, I'm quoting Bessel van der Kolk. He says, social support is not the same as being merely in the presence of others. The critical issue is…

…are synonymous, but the idea of being empathic is trauma-informed because, you know, whether it's Peter Levine or Bessel van der Kolk, Babette Rothschild, like, really coming at it from this empathic, inside-out, i'm with you relational connectivity mirror…

…And that's a lesson I've had to learn fairly late in life. And as I quote in The Myth of Normal, my friend Bessel van der Kolk, the trauma psychiatrist, looked at me once. This is about 10, 12 years ago. We were having lunch and he said, Gabor, you…

…behind the huckster president's persona, but in our trauma-blind world, It did. He is a poster child for trauma, the psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk told me. Is there any water around? It would help me get through. Only if that's the only option. Oh,…

…questions. These are from the audience, are they? Yeah, they're from the audience. I'm not making it up. I talked to your friend Bessel van der Kolk once, who wrote an amazing book, Body Keeps the Score. And he said to me, he said, I bet you have a…

…the past should have been different than the way it was. And that's been very important in my own journey. It was Bessel van der Kolk who said to me once, Here in New York, we were both speaking at a conference together, at Omega actually, and Bessel,…

…a YouTube channel yet to subscribe. You can just put my name in there. But not just myself. Other trauma healers, Bessel van der Kolk, the books that I've written, the book that Bessel has written, which is a perennial bestseller, it's called The Body…

…we're sort of separate individuals, fully in control of our destinies, is really a myth. And the great trauma psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk said that as much as we're told that we're separate individuals, we actually barely exist as individuals. And this…

…the same thing. So, there's a great psychiatrist that I understand is coming to Athens in September, a friend of mine, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, whose work many of you will know, his very well-known book, The Body Keeps the Score. He sold more books than…

…all these experts, you know, you organize the trauma conference in Northern Ireland, and ICOM, and Dan Siegel comes, and Bessel van der Kolk, and Pilar Lee, and all these experts. What are we all saying? Anything that any, aboriginal grandmother could have…

…said. And that's how it went. Number one. Number two. The other thing I was going to say was, I'm sure the name Bessel van der Kolk, you know who he is. He's a trauma psychologist. Yes. His book on trauma is actually on the New York Times bestsellers…

…it in the present moment. And a person missing from this conversation, but very much present, I think, in spirit is Bessel van der Kolk. And Bessel and I were having lunch together once in New York at a beautiful conference, nutritious lunch, lovely sunny…

…massage and the therapist will touch a certain part of their body and all of a sudden the tears come. Because like Bessel van der Kolk says in his bestselling book, the body does keep the score. The body keeps the score. The sensory motor therapies, Pat…

…rooted in my conviction, which is not personal to me, that the truth is inside all of us, that our bodies, as Bessel van der Kolk says, do keep the score, and that with the right questions, in a compassionate setting, people will come to the truth of…

…looked at two opposing candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Now, Trump is a As one of the world's trauma experts, Bessel van der Kolk said to me, is a poster boy for trauma. The grandiosity, the denial of reality, the genuine inability to tell…

…you. The body keeps the score, isn't it, Dr. Gabor, as you have written that book? The body keeps the score, as Dr. Bessel van der Kolk says in his book. What was the... The body... I'm sorry. No, no, no, that's a very good phrase. The body keeps the…

…of course, how they conduct politics, you know, when it shows up. I mean, I don't know if you know the name Bessel van der Kolk. He's a psychiatrist. There's a perennial bestseller in the New York Times called The Body Keeps the Score, which is about…

…we looked at two opposing candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Now, Trump is one of the world's trauma experts. Bessel van der Kolk said to me, he's a poster boy for trauma. The grandiosity, the denial of reality, The genuine inability to tell…