While van der Kolk et al. have certainly contributed a great deal to the study of trauma and helped popularise ideas that have been known within the academy, he

While van der Kolk et al. have certainly contributed a great deal to the study of trauma and helped popularise ideas that have been known within the academy, he remains a controversial figure and spends a great deal of the text going off on self-aggrandising tangents. If you’re interested in psychotherapy in general or the interpretation of the human experience through a psychological lens, I would recommend anything picking up one of Rogers, Yalom, Frankl, or Satir’s books.