Trauma, trust and triumph: psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk on how to recover from our deepest pain

“European and American psychiatry have an obsession with analysis and pharmaceuticals, which is partly – especially in the US – about monetisation, with research grants flowing to the most profitable and established fields. Van der Kolk is keenly aware of inequality as a factor in untreated PTSD, and no great fan of capitalism generally. “I’m … More Trauma, trust and triumph: psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk on how to recover from our deepest pain