Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.

Bessel van der Kolk

• Personality
• Trauma
• Dissociation

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• Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Personality
  • Trauma
  • Dissociation