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3rd Edition

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook. What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

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Bruce D Perry, Maia Szalavitz

  • The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
  • The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
    Pioneering work with trauma victims shows how stress & violence affect children’s brains-and how they can be helped to heal

448 pages
2017
ISBN: 9780465094455

In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery.

How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover?

Child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry tells their stories of trauma and transformation and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what happens to children’s brain when they are exposed to extreme stress; and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease such pain and help them grow into healthy adults. Only when we understand the science of the mind and the power of love and nurturing can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.

"Fascinating and upbeat…. Dr. Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist."
- Mary Pipher, PhD, author of Reviving Ophelia