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breach of contract, misrepresentation, and defamation. Most senior staff members of the Trauma Center resigned in solidarity with van der Kolk and the Trauma Center subsequently closed in late 2018. Van der Kolk used the funds won in his legal settlement to found the nonprofit Trauma
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