Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Psychological Trauma | 1986 | Buy |
| Traumatic Stress | 1996 | Buy |
| The Body Keeps the Score | 2014 | Buy |
Norton on Interpersonal Neurobiology Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Neurobiology for Clinical Social Work | 1994 | Buy |
| Healing Trauma | 2003 | Buy |
| Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self | 2003 | Buy |
| Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self | 2003 | Buy |
| The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life | 2004 | Buy |
| Trauma and the Body | 2006 | Buy |
| The Haunted Self | 2006 | Buy |
| The Mindful Brain | 2007 | Buy |
| The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children | 2007 | Buy |
| The Healthy Aging Brain | 2008 | Buy |
| Infant/Child Mental Health, Early Intervention, and Relationship-Based Therapies | 2009 | Buy |
| From Axons to Identity | 2009 | Buy |
| The Psychophysiology of Self-Awareness | 2009 | Buy |
| The Healing Power of Emotion | 2009 | Buy |
| Changing Minds in Therapy | 2010 | Buy |
| The Mindful Therapist | 2010 | Buy |
| The Impact of Attachment | 2010 | Buy |
| Self-Agency in Psychotherapy | 2010 | Buy |
| Being a Brain-Wise Therapist | 2011 | Buy |
| Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation | 2011 | Buy |
| The Brain-Savvy Therapist’s Workbook | 2011 | Buy |
| Love and War in Intimate Relationships | 2011 | Buy |
| The Polyvagal Theory | 2011 | Buy |
| Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology | 2012 | Buy |
| The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy | 2012 | Buy |
| Clinical Intuition in Psychotherapy | 2012 | Buy |
| Brain-Based Parenting | 2012 | Buy |
| The Archaeology of Mind | 2012 | Buy |
| A Dissociation Model of Borderline Personality Disorder | 2012 | Buy |
| Borderline Personality Disorder and the Conversational Mode | 2012 | Buy |
| Neurobiology Essentials for Clinicians | 2013 | Buy |
| Body Sense | 2013 | Buy |
| Healing Moments in Psychotherapy | 2013 | Buy |
| Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology and Couple Therapy | 2013 | Buy |
| The Birth of Intersubjectivity | 2014 | Buy |
| Neurobiologically Informed Trauma Therapy with Children and Adolescents | 2014 | Buy |
| Awakening Clinical Intuition | 2014 | Buy |
| The Neuroscience of Human Relationships | 2014 | Buy |
| Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morali: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdomby Darcia Narvaez | 2014 | Buy |
| The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Play | 2014 | Buy |
| Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality | 2014 | Buy |
| Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes | 2015 | Buy |
| Healing the Traumatized Self | 2015 | Buy |
| Sensorimotor Psychotherapy | 2015 | Buy |
| The Neuropsychology of the Unconscious | 2015 | Buy |
| Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Relationships, Creativity, and Resiliency | 2015 | Buy |
| Affect Regulation Theory | 2015 | Buy |
| 10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy | 2015 | Buy |
| Why Therapy Works | 2015 | Buy |
| Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains | 2015 | Buy |
| Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience | 2015 | Buy |
| The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy | 2016 | Buy |
| The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy: Enhancing Connection & Trust in the Treatment of Children & Adolescents | 2016 | Buy |
| Prenatal Development and Parents’ Lived Experiences | 2016 | Buy |
| Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation | 2016 | Buy |
| Mind – A Journey to the Heart of Being Human | 2016 | Buy |
| Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation | 2016 | Buy |
| How People Change | 2017 | Buy |
| The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy | 2017 | Buy |
| The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory | 2017 | Buy |
| Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy | 2017 | Buy |
| The Heart of Trauma | 2017 | Buy |
| Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory | 2018 | Buy |
| The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy | 2018 | Buy |
| Neurobiology For Clinical Social Work, Second Edition | 2018 | Buy |
| Borderline Bodies | 2018 | Buy |
| Mind-Brain-Gene | 2019 | Buy |
| Right Brain Psychotherapy | 2019 | Buy |
| The Development of the Unconscious Mind | 2019 | Buy |
| Addiction, Attachment, Trauma and Recovery | 2019 | Buy |
| Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection | 2020 | Buy |
| The Pocket Guide to Neuroscience for Clinicians | 2020 | Buy |
| Mind, Consciousness, and Well-Being | 2020 | Buy |
| Polyvagal Flip Chart | 2020 | Buy |
| The Development of a Therapist | 2021 | Buy |
| Reassembling Models of Reality | 2021 | Buy |
| The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context | 2021 | Buy |
| Interpersonal Neurobiology and Clinical Practice | 2021 | Buy |
| Our Anxious Selves | 2022 | Buy |
| IntraConnected | 2022 | Buy |
| Polyvagal Perspectives | 2024 | Buy |
| Autism in Polyvagal Terms | 2024 | Buy |
| The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature | 2025 | Buy |
| Executive Functioning and Psychotherapy | 2025 | Buy |
Bessel van der Kolk has spent over four decades studying how traumatic experiences change the way people think, feel, and live. As a psychiatrist and researcher, he has published extensively on post-traumatic stress, and his clinical work has influenced how therapists around the world approach trauma treatment.
His most widely read book, The Body Keeps the Score, brought his research to a general audience and became a cultural phenomenon. Van der Kolk has also contributed to the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, a large collection of professional texts covering topics from polyvagal theory to attachment-focused therapy. His earlier books, Psychological Trauma (1986) and Traumatic Stress (1996), laid the groundwork for much of the modern understanding of trauma’s effects on the nervous system.