In this excellent videotape, which is particularly timely in light of recent debates on the validity of retrieved memories, Harvard Medical School professor Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., a leading researcher in the field of trauma, lucidly and eloquently speaks about how people remember extraordinary trauma. Individuals who are traumatized suffer memory disturbances, he says, and repeated trauma disturbs the central nervous system and causes changes in the brain. Understandably, van der Kolk explains, individuals are reluctant to remember traumatic experiences. Most people would rather not believe the cruelty humans are capable of, and this resistance often causes incest survivors to have global, autobiographical memory impairment. Although this tape is intended for survivors, the subject may be problematic for some viewers.
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