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The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.'Van der Kolk draws on thirty years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma is one of the West's most urgent public health issues ... Packed with science and human stories' New Scientist'Breathtaking in its scope and breadth, a seminal work by one of the preeminent pioneers in trauma research and treatment' Peter A. Levine, author of In An Unspoken Voice'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery

The tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the world.Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a French intellectual who went up against the most powerful political and scientific figures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to propose the first evolutionary theory of life and, with it, a new science: biology. For centuries, evolutionary theorists have endeavored to discredit Lamarck and his theory of self-transforming organisms. In his own lifetime, he was mocked by his adversaries and personally insulted by Napoleon; when he died, he was buried in a pauper’s grave.In this virtuosic melding of biography, history, politics and science, Jessica Riskin sets out to correct the record. Riskin tells the story of Lamarck’s life and work as an intense struggle between rival forces to answer questions that remain foundational to our modern worldview: what is a living being, and what is science? These questions, though fundamental, are far from settled today.Lamarck’s claim that animals created—and were continually re-creating—themselves through their behaviors and ways of life was an outrageous assertion in the eighteenth-century, when people generally believed in divine creation; even today, Lamarck’s claim might seem ludicrous to anyone who has taken high school biology and has learned that a giraffe can’t lengthen its own neck and pass on the change to its offspring. But new findings suggest Lamarck’s basic claim—that animals play an active role in shaping the course of evolution—was in many ways right. A reconsideration of his life and work is long overdue. Denying the agency of living beings has informed two centuries of eugenic policies and environmental destruction, allowing people to regard the living world as so much raw material to shape and exploit for economic, industrial and imperial gain.Deeply researched, strikingly original, and beautifully written, The Power of Life shines a much-needed light on an underappreciated biologist whose radical ideas offered a more inclusive, collaborative, and enlightened approach to science.