Below are a selection of videos from when Juliet interviewed Bessel van der Kolk in December 2024
Clip 1 – Bessel talks about his introduction to the Pesso Boyden method and working experientially with clients (1 min).
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Clip 2– Bessel talks about how the experiential method supports clients to create a new perspective that is embodied beyond a cognitive level (2 mins).
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Clip 3– Bessel talks about his own experience as a client and the profound impact the structure had on him (1 min).
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Clip 4 – Bessel talks about the method as successful method for trauma therapy (1 min 50 sec).
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Clip 5– Bessel talks about why it is important in therapy to consider what didn’t happen to you and describes how PBSP has a novel and powerful way of tending to this. (1 mins 20s).
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Clip 6– Bessel and Juliet discus the neuroscience of micro-tracking and the impact it has on the body and mind (1 min).
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Clip 7 – Bessel identifies PBSP as ‘missing piece’ for trauma treatment (1 min).
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Clip 8 – Bessel shares how hundreds of hours of psychoanalysis did not work for him and how PSBP impacted him in just a few sessions (40 secs).
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Clip 9a – Bessel shares his take on the concept of ‘creating’ memories through PBSP (1 min 20 secs).
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Clip 9b – Bessel talking about the unique aspect of the PBSP method(42 secs).
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Clip 10 – Bessel talks about how the method works (1 min 34 secs ).
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Clip 11 – Bessel discusses how the effect of trauma impacts the left and right brain and how the method helps (1 min 18 secs).
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Bessel van der Kolk BESSEL VAN DER KOLK Author of The Body Keeps the Score SAYS:
“It’s the only thing that I feel really works, and that’s the stuff I learned from Al Pesso, to actually give people a visceral experience of what it would have been like as a small kid to have people be there for you. It’s absolutely transformative.” (see below for 3 minute film of him saying this)
says Bessel van der Kolk, about the method Pesso Boyden System of Psychotherapy (PBSP), when talking about Trauma and Abandonment. Van der Kolk is a psychiatrist, author, and researcher based in Boston, USA. Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress. He is the author of The New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score. Chapter 18 in this book is all about PBSP
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