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?