Bessel van der Kolk

At-a-Glance

Author of "The Body Keeps the Score," a New York Times best seller translated into 43 languages.
Founder of the Trauma Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Started the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1982.
Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.
His research since the 1970s has focused on post-traumatic stress.
Served as president of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies and former co-director of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Received his M.D. at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, in 1970.

Biography

Bessel van der Kolk is a Boston-based Dutch-American psychiatrist, author, researcher, and educator. Since the 1970s, his research has focused on post-traumatic stress. He is the author of four books, including "The Body Keeps the Score," a New York Times best seller translated into 43 languages. Van der Kolk is a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and president of the Trauma Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts.