How long does it take to read The Body Keeps the Score?
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk takes about 9 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 32 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 520 pages, about 143,000 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder, Treatment, Therapie, Physiopathology, Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom, Neurowissenschaften
