The Body Keeps the Score describes accounts of the impact of physical, emotional, and psychological trauma on individuals told from Dr. Kolk’s medical perspective. Stitches is an autobiographical account of a child’s traumatic experiences and his shifting relationships with his family, his perceptions, and himself told from David Small’s point of view. Pick a particular area of trauma mentioned in either book, and begin a researched analysis of it. For example, Kolk cites studies and research on trauma in veterans.
How and in what ways can you expand that understanding based on research from today?
In this case, you would examine trauma and veterans by researching current scholarship in this area from at least 3 secondary sources on combat trauma and presenting that information in an academic essay. In an essay of no more than 7 pages including a works cited page, cite evidence generously from both primary and at least 3 secondary sources to support your subject according to MLA format and without forgetting your Works Cited page.
