{ "schema_version": "1.0", "kind": "BooksRedditRecommendationReceipt", "id": "booksreddit:recommendation-receipt:the-body-keeps-the-score", "book": { "slug": "the-body-keeps-the-score", "title": "The Body Keeps the Score", "author": "Bessel van der Kolk", "authors": [ "Bessel van der Kolk" ], "first_published": 2014 }, "canonical_url": "https://booksreddit.com/book/the-body-keeps-the-score/", "receipt_anchor_url": "https://booksreddit.com/book/the-body-keeps-the-score/#recommendation-receipt", "evidence_urls": { "json": "https://booksreddit.com/evidence/the-body-keeps-the-score.json", "markdown": "https://booksreddit.com/evidence/the-body-keeps-the-score.md" }, "consensus": "r/CPTSD owns this book. Of 690 total mentions across seven years, 535 come from that one subreddit, where van der Kolk's framework for how trauma lodges in the nervous system is treated less as a popular-science read and more as clinical infrastructure. Commenters cite it alongside Janina Fisher's Healing the Fragmented Selves and Pete Walker's Complex PTSD, forming a trio that r/CPTSD threads return to consistently.", "read_if": "If your therapist has mentioned somatic work or IFS and you want the foundational text behind both, this is the one. People in r/CPTSD use it as a baseline — 535 mentions across seven years — before going deeper with Fisher or Walker. If you're in the academic psychology world and want rigorous citations, the 12 mentions in r/AcademicPsychology suggest you'll finish it with reservations.", "skip_if": "r/AcademicPsychology questions whether some of the neuroscience is overstated or selectively cited.", "strongest_evidence": { "subreddit": "getdisciplined", "excerpt": "Solid advice. One caveat that royally screwed me over for years with this is the assumption that an individual has control over their mind. That is to say that they have the capacity to choose how they think. For myself in the past, and for some others, this may not be the case. This comment is ane…", "score": 344, "sentiment": 0.7, "published_at": "2022-10-16T07:10:46+00:00", "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/y5803p/method_it_took_me_9_years_to_beat_overthinking/isilpgr/" }, "dissent": { "editorial_caveat": "r/AcademicPsychology questions whether some of the neuroscience is overstated or selectively cited.", "negative_source_excerpt": null }, "sample": { "total_mentions": 690, "unique_commenters": 584, "published_quote_count": 8, "average_sentiment": 0.3, "subreddits": [ { "name": "CPTSD", "mentions": 535, "average_sentiment": 0.15, "last_seen": "2025-12-28" }, { "name": "therapists", "mentions": 62, "average_sentiment": 0, "last_seen": "2025-11-25" }, { "name": "InternalFamilySystems", "mentions": 29, "average_sentiment": 0, "last_seen": "2025-09-30" }, { "name": "askpsychology", "mentions": 22, "average_sentiment": 0, "last_seen": "2025-10-05" }, { "name": "attachment_theory", "mentions": 18, "average_sentiment": 0, "last_seen": "2025-01-31" }, { "name": "AcademicPsychology", "mentions": 12, "average_sentiment": 0, "last_seen": "2024-01-01" }, { "name": "selfimprovement", "mentions": 8, "average_sentiment": 0.7, "last_seen": "2025-08-24" }, { "name": "getdisciplined", "mentions": 4, "average_sentiment": 0.55, "last_seen": "2024-05-27" } ] }, "updated_at": "2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z", "sources": [ { "subreddit": "getdisciplined", "excerpt": "Solid advice. One caveat that royally screwed me over for years with this is the assumption that an individual has control over their mind. That is to say that they have the capacity to choose how they think. For myself in the past, and for some others, this may not be the case. This comment is ane…", "score": 344, "sentiment": 0.7, "published_at": "2022-10-16T07:10:46+00:00", "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/y5803p/method_it_took_me_9_years_to_beat_overthinking/isilpgr/" }, { "subreddit": "selfimprovement", "excerpt": "Please consider reading The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk. This book will help you to understand what has happened to, how it is affecting you now, and what some of your options are for healing.", "score": 222, "sentiment": 0.7, "published_at": "2022-11-06T02:26:06+00:00", "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/selfimprovement/comments/yn9u77/emotional_incest_i_finally_know_why_im_such_a/iv8g0gb/" }, { "subreddit": "getdisciplined", "excerpt": "Take some time. You need it. The degree can be finished anytime, but this crucial time of healing cannot be repeated. A lot of studies show that how you heal in the aftermath of such a horrific event like this will stay with you for the rest of your life. Take the time you need, and when you think i…", "score": 204, "sentiment": 0.4, "published_at": "2024-05-27T00:38:02+00:00", "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/1d1e5mo/i_was_doing_great_in_college_until_i_was_almost/l5ti0n7/" }, { "subreddit": "CPTSD", "excerpt": "Yes! This is actually the framework I use with my therapist to heal. Based on this book: Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher She worked with Bessel van der kolk who wrote the body keeps the score. She takes his work further to su…", "score": 198, "sentiment": 0.6, "published_at": "2021-05-10T12:49:59+00:00", "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/CPTSD/comments/n92s47/do_you_ever_feel_like_you_are_not_a_whole/gxloswi/" } ], "methodology_url": "https://booksreddit.com/methodology/", "limitations": [ "Mention counts describe the tracked Reddit sample, not every Reddit comment or every reader.", "Average sentiment summarizes sampled discussion and is not a star rating.", "Editorial consensus, reader fit, and caveats are derived from the existing sourced book synthesis." ] }