Bessel van der Kolk

He was born in 1943 in the Netherlands. He studied pre-medical curriculum with a political science major at the University of Hawaii in 1965. He got his MD, in 1970, at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, and in 1974, Bessel completed his psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School.

The best place to start is the Norton on Interpersonal Neurobiology series, the earliest of Bessel van der Kolk's multi-book series: it opens with Neurobiology for Clinical Social Work (1994) and runs to 86 books across 1994–2025, ending with Executive Functioning and Psychotherapy (2025).

Bessel van der Kolk has 89 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1986 and 2025. 86 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Norton on Interpersonal Neurobiology series with 86 books — and 3 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Bessel van der Kolk's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Norton on Interpersonal Neurobiology (1994–2025, 86 books).

This guide splits Bessel van der Kolk's 89 books into 1 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Norton on Interpersonal Neurobiology (86 books, 1994–2025).