Bessel van der KolkPsychiatrist, Boston
Four decades on how what happens to us gets stored in the body rather than remembered as a story. His argument is that talking alone often cannot reach it.
Appears in units 1, 2, 5, 12 and 20.
The Operating Manual for Being Human
And then, a place to go deeper.
Built on one rule: it's designed to be used less, not more.
Going deeperComing with the book
Some readers want the sentence and nothing more. Others want to know who worked this out and how they know. Both are fine.
In the companion, any name in the text opens where you're standing, in plain language, with a way through to the original if you want it. Forty or so researchers. Eighty-six sources. None of it in your way unless you reach for it.
In the printed book, selected figures carry a GO DEEPER mark and a code. Scanning it opens the same material: expanded science, author reflections, guided practices, worksheets, and updates as the research moves.
END OF UNIT
Go Deeper Online
This section is just the map.
The full terrain is online.
- Extended science and evidence
- Author reflections and stories
- Guided practices and exercises
- Worksheets and tools
- Animated figures and interactions
- Updates as the science evolves
The practicesComing with the book
Every unit ends with something to do. When you're actually in it, the part of you that reads instructions is the part that has gone offline. So they're spoken, in Mark's voice, and the screen goes dark while one is playing.
Four minutes. No timer counting at you. Nothing to finish.
Practice mode