Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

The lack of self-awareness in victims of chronic childhood trauma is sometimes so profound that they cannot recognize themselves in a mirror. Brain scans show that this is not the result of mere inattention: The structures in charge of self-recognition may be knocked out along with the structures related to self-experience.

Bessel van der Kolk

• Mirror
• Victims
• Childhood Trauma
• Self-recognition

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• The lack of self-awareness in victims of chronic childhood trauma is sometimes so profound that they cannot recognize themselves in a mirror. Brain scans show that this is not the result of mere inattention: The structures in charge of self-recognition may be knocked out along with the structures related to self-experience.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Mirror
  • Victims
  • Childhood Trauma