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I wrote a tribute for Bob Flanagan as part of a marathon reading in his honor today. Here's the text of what I read:

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The whole book is like this, anecdote after anecdote of Vietnam vets and rape survivors miraculously healing through bodywork. The 400+ page book does not include a single case of someone benefiting from medications, talk therapy or CBT.

This excerpt says he didn't ask his patient what happened to her and that it may take "weeks or even years" of body-based therapies before talk therapy will work! It's true that some people aren't immediately comfortable opening up, but he is recommending suppressing your trauma in favor of yoga.

Experts should not get to reject the scientific consensus because they think their pet theory is right lol

Desensitization to triggers objectively does reduce outbursts and flashbacks. It is insane to propose that instead of treating the symptoms that make it difficult to feel satisfaction in everyday life, you should treat the dissatisfaction itself via roundabout means like yoga

Trauma is not stored in the body. Trauma - and stress generally - can cause physical symptoms, but it is not stored in the body.

The body keeps the score is a bad book

People insist on reading this message into the book because it's a good message, but it's not what the book says! Van der Kolk explicitly recommends things like yoga and massage as a *replacement and prerequisite* for talk therapy.

It also consistently stigmatizes anyone who addresses their trauma with talk therapy or medications. Anything that isn't yoga, massage, community theater or other "body based" interventions is described as ignoring the root cause of the problem.

The message is always that trauma survivors are fundamentally broken: Incapable of making friends, holding down jobs or participating in their own lives. This is often combined with exaggerated or outright false statistics.

The way this book talks about trauma survivors is so insane

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Bumping this in case you know anyone who can speak to the science in "The Body Keeps The Score" or works with patients who've experienced trauma. Thanks!

PTSD diagnostic criteria have been essentially stable and all but universally accepted by healthcare providers and scientists (I am one) for more than a decade.

The words "racism" "sexism" and "homophobia" (and their derivatives) do not appear in the text. Poverty and structural forces are mentioned *very* briefly in the epilogue. It's remarkable. I have never seen such a wide gap between the way people describe a book and the actual text of the book.

There's also the 13-year-old that van der Kolk describes as "seductive with any male who crossed her path."

I keep hearing that "The Body Keeps The Score" has helped to destigmatize trauma but it consistently describes rape victims in stigmatizing terms: - "Obese and aggressive" - "Lacking in self-protection" - "Frozen and uptight"

PTSD is highly treatable‼️ Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy are evidence based modalities that work via exposure and cognitive restructuring‼️ EMDR works but trainings actively mislead practitioners about why - the active ingredient is exposure not bilateral stimulation‼️

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Yes, this is the single insight of the book but Kolk wildly over-extends the idea and uses it to recommend a bunch of unproven crank bullshit. There are FAR better books explaining and supporting this concept that don't smuggle in a bunch of stigmatizing messaging and pseudoscience.

And even the "good parts" are mostly nonsense. FMRIs, norepinephrine addiction and the triune brain model have been debunked for years! The only redeeming feature of the book is the title.

Part of the core thesis of the book is that you should not talk about your trauma! You should suppress your feelings and pursue things like dance and equine therapy to get at the "root cause" of your symptoms. It's 1950s garbage repackaged as New Age forbidden wisdom.

As well as its myriad factual errors, the book claims: - We're wasting taxpayer dollars on abused children - Trauma is the cause of autoimmune disorders - Most fat people were sexually abused as children. It's stunningly, shockingly bad! People should not be reading or recommending it.

Both *can* be true but they aren't in this case! The text of "The Body Keeps The Score" is fundamentally unscientific and reactionary. If you've taken something good from it I'm happy for you, but that's despite the message of the book, not because of it.

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If a test has a narrow specific use but is being misapplied 99% of the time, that's still embarrassing! The Rorcshach is being used in courts to assess competency to stand trial and adjudicate custody disputes. That's bad!

It's extremely embarrassing that we're still using these. They're like palm reading or handwriting analysis: Therapists are far more likely to be doing cold reads or just regurgitating what they already think about their clients than learning something new.

It's weird how little critical engagement I've seen with this book. The only academic who has fact-checked its claims is a right-wing freak. If you know someone who has expertise in this area and can help me figure out the academic consensus on trauma biology and treatment, let me know!

There are millions of studies, entire journals, dedicated to non-drug treatments for mental health issues. Many of them work! This is not forbidden knowledge, it's mainstream medicine that is being tested and published constantly.

Pretty surprised at how much of an obvious crank the author of "The Body Keeps The Score" is. This is the book dozens of people I respect have recommended to me?

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Self portrait in long stay motel one week after leaving, October 2022

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