A critique showing that a best‑selling trauma book (Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score) cites weak or misinterpreted evidence and stretches clinical claims to the general population. If true, this is an instance where a high‑reach cultural product converts tentative or narrow findings into broad public‑health prescriptions.
— Errors in mainstream trauma narratives can mislead patients, clinicians, and policy debates about mental‑health prevalence, funding, and treatments.
2026.04.04
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Joseph Everett’s Substack piece documents specific contested claims from The Body Keeps the Score (e.g., broad trauma prevalence claims and a misapplied 1973 obstetrics paper used to justify lifelong trauma from perinatal distress).
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