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“In a time when so many people feel lost and dissatisfied with their lot, van der Kolk [author of The Body Keeps Score] comes along and offers secular absolution: It's not your fault. Trauma made you this way.”

Michael Linden, a professor of psychiatry at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, thinks this is a terrible practice. "Asking somebody ‘how are you feeling?' is inducing negative feelings. You shouldn't do
that. Never, never ever. Sit in the bus and look at the people opposite from you. They don't look happy. Happiness is not the emotion of the day."