Jerold Angelus

Bessel van der Kolk Jerold Angelus

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bessel van der Kolk has conducted research in the area of post-traumatic stress since the 1970s. His work focuses on the interaction of attachment, neurobiology, and developmental aspects of trauma's effects on people. He has written the definitive work[citation needed] in the field of psychological trauma, demonstrating the diverse impact of trauma on a person. His other major publication, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society, talks about how the role of trauma in psychiatric illness has changed over the past 20 years. Van der Kolk has published extensively on the effect trauma can have on development. He has found connections to dissociative problems, borderline personality disorder, self-mutilation, and a wide range of other issues. He was a co-principal investigator in the PTSD field trials for the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). He has served as president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, medical director of the Trauma Center at JRI in Brookline, Massachusetts, and professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.