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Prologue: Facing Trauma and Part One: The Rediscovery of Trauma

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Van der Kolk, Bessel, M.D. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Books, 2014. Print.

• Van der Kolk dedicates the book to his patients, whom he calls his “textbooks” (iii).

• The prologue of the text, entitled “Facing Trauma,” begins on page 1.

• Van der Kolk has always thought it was obvious that “the key to healing was understanding how the human organism works” (2).

• When he was 14 years old, he attended summer camp, where he first developed an interest in practicing medicine.

• During his stay at camp, his cousin Michael had fascinated him with vivid explanations of the human anatomy, including the functions of the human kidneys.

• Van der Kolk states that there are three different avenues that can...

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