Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk
Born1943 (age 80–81)
The Hague, Netherlands
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (1970)
University of Hawaii (1965)
Known forPost-traumatic stress disorder research
Scientific career
InstitutionsBoston University School of Medicine
Boston State Hospital
Websitewww.besselvanderkolk.com

Bessel van der Kolk (born 1943) is a Dutch psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator. Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress. He is the author of The New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score.

Van der Kolk formerly served as president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is a former co-director of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. He is a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and president of the Trauma Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts.[1]

Van der Kolk has published more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles[2] and four books.[3]

  1. ^ "Meet Our Board". Trauma Research Foundation. Archived from the original on February 25, 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  2. ^ "Information and Products by Faculty: Bessel van der Kolk". PESI Inc. Archived from the original on August 5, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  3. ^ Revanche, Jonno (September 14, 2017). "Photography saved me. Staring down a lens, I re-ordered painful memories". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 14, 2019.