how a bestselling book helps us understand trauma – but inflates the definition of it
- Written by: Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
Artem Maltsev/unsplashIn a new series, we look at books that have become cultural touchstones.
If new books are lucky they enjoy a brief honeymoon of attention before ebbing away into oblivion. Not so The Body Keeps the Score, a publishing phenomenon that has kept selling long after it first hit the shelves in 2014. The book has spent more than 150...
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