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Birth in the Netherlands
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Graduated University of Hawaii
Studied pre-medical with political science major -
M.D. from University of Chicago
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Completed Psychiatric Residency at Harvard Medical School
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Became Director of Boston State Hospital
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Developed Interest in Traumatic Stress
As a psychiatrist at the Boston Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, he became interested in traumatic stress. -
DSM Research Assistant
DSM = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. -
Started the Trauma Center in Brookline MA
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Published "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Psychological and Biological Sequelae"
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Published "Psychological Trauma"
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Began Directing the Annual Boston International Trauma Conference
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Published "Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on the Mind, Body, and Society," with McFarlane and Weisaeth
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Created the National Child Traumatic Stress Network
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Published "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma"
This book is still a best seller in 2023 -
Terminated from the Justice Resources Institue; Sued them for misrepresentation and defamation and won
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Founded the Trauma Research Foundation as a non-profit with funds won from the Justice Resource Institute
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His National Child Traumatic Stress Network had grown to 150 sites