Popular self‑help and clinical books can package preliminary, mixed, or misread research as definitive fact; because they reach millions they can change how people self‑diagnose, how clinicians prioritize treatments, and how policymakers view population mental health.
— If bestselling therapy books routinely overstate evidence, public health priorities, clinical practice, and cultural attitudes toward trauma could be systematically distorted.
2026.03.05
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The article attacks The Body Keeps the Score — a 3‑million‑copy bestseller by a prominent psychiatrist — and cites a 1973 paper and other evidence to rebut specific claims about birth trauma and lifelong effects.
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