Bessel van der Kolk
Biography
Bessel van der Kolk is a renowned psychiatrist and author born in the Netherlands in 1943. He has dedicated his career to studying post-traumatic stress, and his book "The Body Keeps the Score" has been a New York Times bestseller, translated into 43 languages. Van der Kolk has also served as president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.