jonas engelmann @jonasengelmann.bsky.social · 05/05/2026"I am dismayed by the low quality of van der Kolk's scientific work. Again and again, as I tried to show, there are slippages and inconsistencies in his arguments about the literal nature of traumatic memory, arguments that are inadequately supported by the empirical evidence he adduces." p.305 1301
jonas engelmann @jonasengelmann.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Ruth Leys dedicates a whole chapter of her 'Trauma: A Genealogy' book to this guy. It's more intellectual history than psychiatric research but well worth the read, I think she also addresses some glaring methodological flaws of his studiespress.uchicago.eduTraumaPsychic trauma is one of the most frequently invoked ideas in the behavioral sciences and the humanities today. Yet bitter disputes have marked the discussion of trauma ever since it first became an i... 1321