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The Body Keeps the Score stigmatizes survivors, blames victims, and depoliticizes violence. While masquerading as care for survivors, it creates a hierarchy in which marginalized victims are even more marginalized. And it may be giving people inaccurate information about the impact of trauma. Several scientists I spoke to whose work appears in the book say van der Kolk mischaracterizes their research and steers survivors away from treatments that might help them.