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The boy who was raised as a dog : and other stories from a child psychiatrist's notebook : what traumatized children can teach us about life, loss, love, and healing

The boy who was raised as a dog : and other stories from a child psychiatrist's notebook : what traumatized children can teach us about life, loss, love, and healing

Book 2008

"What happens when a young child is traumatized? How does terror affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses to their own parents' murders, children raised in closets and cages, the Branch Davidian children, and victims of family violence. In 'The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, ' he tells their stories of trauma and transforma...