Presented by Penguin.

What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments may help restore these to a lifestyle with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk gives a fresh paradigm for efficiently treating traumatic tension.

Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his own work and those of specialists around the world, The Body Helps to keep the Rating sheds new light on the routes from trauma – which rest in the regulation and syncing of mind and body, using sport, play, yoga, mindfulness, meditation and other routes to equilibrium.