How psychiatric ideas about trauma evolved after World War I - Big

Bessel van der Kolk, author of "The Body Keeps the Score," spoke to Big Think about trauma and its evolution in the psychiatric literature.
From shell shock to combat fatigue, the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.

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