Bessel
Americannoun
noun
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Eager to learn more, I attended a workshop led by the Dutch-born psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, a leading figure in trauma research whose 2014 book, The Body Keeps the Score, was a bestseller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
“Keeping Score” is inspired by Bessel van der Kolk’s book, “The Body Keeps the Score,” which details how trauma manifests in the body through illness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
The psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, in his pioneering research on the effects of sustained trauma, showed patients the famous Rorschach inkblots test.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2024
Gurwitch cites Bessel van der Kolk, a psychiatrist and researcher, who theorizes that the body remembers traumatic experiences in more primal, unconscious parts of the brain.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021
Similarly, Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel predicted the existence of Neptune on the basis of anomalies in the orbit of Uranus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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