(The book is available only as an Amazon Kindle eBook in the U.S. and is not available in any format in the U.K. because Amazon mistakenly categorizes it as a companion guide, which violates their content guide. The book is being expanded and will be republished under a new title in October 2024.)
Dr. Scheeringa's newest book, Analysis of The Body Keeps the Score, was published April 2023.
This booklet is the first to analyze in detail all the claims about trauma science in Bessel van der Kolk’s controversial bestseller The Body Keeps the Score (TBKTS). In a concise 71 pages of text, Dr. Scheeringa comprehensively debunks every neuroscience claim in TBKTS. This analysis reveals that van der Kolk’s narrative, which has been the loadstar for the explosion of so-called trauma-informed social policies across the nation, is a fabricated reality based on fundamental misunderstandings and an ideological weaponization of trauma.
Child psychiatrist Michael Scheeringa, MD brings more than 30 years of clinical practice
and groundbreaking research in the field of posttraumatic stress disorder in youths.
Dr. Scheeringa launched a YouTube channel (click here) to share insights about trauma and PTSD.
The latest confusions clarified, myths demystified, and ideologies imperiled.
Get the true facts, not the false facts.
What is Trauma?
What is PTSD?
PTSD in Very Young Children Explained
Unreported Truths About Toxic Stress Theory
Unreported Truths about Complex PTSD
The Toxic Stress Playbook: The New Battlegrounds to Expand Government Social Programs
My Psychology Blog Was Censored: Who Does That?
The latest confusions clarified, myths demystified, and ideologies imperiled.
Get the true facts, not the false facts.
What is Trauma?
What is PTSD?
PTSD in Very Young Children Explained
Unreported Truths About Toxic Stress Theory
Unreported Truths about Complex PTSD
The Toxic Stress Playbook: The New Battlegrounds to Expand Government Social Programs
My Psychology Blog Was Censored: Who Does That?
Follow him on Twitter @m_scheeringa
Interviews about trauma
7/24/23 Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone (Australia). Discussed expansion of the use of "trauma." Why it happened and the negative consequences.
Radio Interviews about The Trouble With Trauma
3/17/22 WREG Live at 9 television (Memphis)
3/16/22 Alaska Public Radio / Your Health Connection with Prentiss Pemberton
3/12/22 Second Saturday on WPKN, with Bob Johnson (CT)
2/24/22 KPCW The Mountain Life, with Lynn Ware Peek (Utah)
2/23/22 The Frankie Boyer Show
2/21/22 The Culture Buzz with John Busbee, KFMG-FM (Des Moines, Iowa)
2/16/22 Warren in the Morning on Kingston Radio (New York)
2/15/22 What's the Story with Kim Berns (Rye Record podcast)
2/15/22 Conversations on WYAD 94.1 FM with Cyrus Webb (Mississippi)
2/15/22 Morning on Maine Street with Bill Maine, WDUN AM 550/ FM 102.9 (Georgia)
2/10/22 The Jefferson Exchange/ Jefferson Public Radio (Oregon & California)
2/9/22 The Brewmance Podcast
2/7/22 Intelligence For Your Health With Connie Sellecca
2/3/22 The Carson Schubert Morning Show/ KMA (Iowa)
2/3/22 The Rayla Campbell Show/ WSMN (Massachusetts)
1/25/22 The Natasha Hall Show (on CJAD 800, Montreal)
1/12/22 The Kathryn Zox Show
1/06/22 The Lucas Rockwood Show
Print Interviews
Vox: How Trauma Became the Word of the Decade, by Lexi Pandell (online 1/25/22)
7/24/23 Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone (Australia). Discussed expansion of the use of "trauma." Why it happened and the negative consequences.
Radio Interviews about The Trouble With Trauma
3/17/22 WREG Live at 9 television (Memphis)
3/16/22 Alaska Public Radio / Your Health Connection with Prentiss Pemberton
3/12/22 Second Saturday on WPKN, with Bob Johnson (CT)
2/24/22 KPCW The Mountain Life, with Lynn Ware Peek (Utah)
2/23/22 The Frankie Boyer Show
2/21/22 The Culture Buzz with John Busbee, KFMG-FM (Des Moines, Iowa)
2/16/22 Warren in the Morning on Kingston Radio (New York)
2/15/22 What's the Story with Kim Berns (Rye Record podcast)
2/15/22 Conversations on WYAD 94.1 FM with Cyrus Webb (Mississippi)
2/15/22 Morning on Maine Street with Bill Maine, WDUN AM 550/ FM 102.9 (Georgia)
2/10/22 The Jefferson Exchange/ Jefferson Public Radio (Oregon & California)
2/9/22 The Brewmance Podcast
2/7/22 Intelligence For Your Health With Connie Sellecca
2/3/22 The Carson Schubert Morning Show/ KMA (Iowa)
2/3/22 The Rayla Campbell Show/ WSMN (Massachusetts)
1/25/22 The Natasha Hall Show (on CJAD 800, Montreal)
1/12/22 The Kathryn Zox Show
1/06/22 The Lucas Rockwood Show
Print Interviews
Vox: How Trauma Became the Word of the Decade, by Lexi Pandell (online 1/25/22)
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