Bessel van der kolk family

Dutch psychiatrist, researcher and educator (born )

Bessel van der Kolk (born ) is a Dutch psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator. Since the s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress.

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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] In , allegations that he mistreated female employees lead to his firing from his position as president of the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute.^[2]

Van der Kolk has published more than peer-reviewed scientific articles^[3] and four books.^[4]

Early life and education

Van der Kolk was born in