Dr. Michael Scheeringa
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And that has given us a language that we can talk about trauma with patients, and researchers can talk apples to apples in different labs, and we know we're talking about the same thing.
So one half of the book is the neurobiology story, The Body Keeps the Score.
There's a whole other half of that book about treatment and his ideas that follow, that treatment has to be body-based.
Somatic treatments, maybe another name for them.
Somatic treatment is a
do work for a lot of people, but so does placebo.
Astrology helps a lot of people.
People are complicated and heterogeneous.
Traditional therapy, biblical counseling, different things work for different people.
There are people who benefit from somatic treatments.
The problem in his book is that he says that's the only way you can fully heal yourself and your soul.
I did find things where, not just cherry picking, but he just said things that are wrong, that talks about studies that don't exist, or loads up citations in the text, and you look up the citations and realize there's nothing about what he's talking about.
Well, it's a lot of work to check all that.
On that line, you know, this book came out in 2014.
And when I first noticed it on the bestseller list, I thought, oh, it's just gonna fade away.
You know, it's just another fad.
And it didn't.
And I thought, okay, somebody's gonna debunk this.
Somebody older than me is gonna write a letter to the editor or a review, and then we're gonna find out it's all a hoax.
Nobody ever did.
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