Bessel van der Kolk: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- psychiatrist and author
- Quoted on
- Women's health & gynaecology, Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“the body keeps the score”
What Bessel van der Kolk has said
“When you croak, no one is going to talk about trauma... is really a reluctance to come to terms with your own pain inside yourself.”
Harvard psychiatrist · Mental health · 27 Aug 2026 · ‘They’re selling everything as trauma’: how our emotional pain became a product | Katherine Rowland ↗
Where Bessel van der Kolk has been quoted
- People around the world are appalled by Trump’s win, but women have been gripped by a visceral horror | Rhiannon Lucy Cossletttheguardian.com · 29 Sept 2026
- ‘They’re selling everything as trauma’: how our emotional pain became a product | Katherine Rowlandtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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