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1. Discuss Bessel Van der Kolk's use of a metaphor within the dedication of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.

Van der Kolk provides a simple and concise dedication within the book, but his use of a metaphor to describe his patients echoes a major theme of the text. When Van der Kolk describes his patients as his "textbooks," (iii) he displays a quality that the reader will come to know well over the course of the book. Van der Kolk insists on using the patients' experiences, voices, and impulses to inform his prescription of a comprehensive treatment plan. He wants his patients to serve as his textbooks, rather than trying to fit what his patients tell him into a preconceived notion he had pulled from a textbook.

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