The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook : What ...
ISBN: 9780465056538 | 0465056539
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
Pub. Date: 12/1/2007
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What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, he tells their stories of trauma and transformation through the lens of science, revealing the brain's astonishing capacity for healing. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compas... MORE
| Author's Note | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Tina's World | p. 7 |
| For Your Own Good | p. 31 |
| Stairway to Heaven | p. 57 |
| Skin Hunger | p. 81 |
| The Coldest Heart | p. 99 |
| The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog | p. 125 |
| Satanic Panic | p. 155 |
| The Raven | p. 179 |
| "Mom Is Lying. Mom Is Hurting Me. Please Call the Police." | ... MOREp. 203 |
| The Kindness of Children | p. 215 |
| Healing Communities | p. 231 |
| Appendix | p. 247 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 251 |
| Notes | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 265 |
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Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. is the Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, a Houston-based non-profit organization which promotes innovations in service, research and education in child maltreatment and childhood trauma. He has served as a consultant to the FBI and is the former Chief of Psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital, as well as former Vice-Chairman for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. He lives in Houston, Texas and Alberta, Canada. Maia Szalavitz is an award-winning journalist who specializes in science and health. She is the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids and Recovery Options: The Complete Guide with Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D. She lives in New York City.
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