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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
by Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD and Maia Szalavitz
Hardback with dustjacket. 263 pages.
The 7-year-old girl expected every man she met to fondle her. The frantic little boy raged because his clueless caretaker, a dog breeder, had kept him in a cage. In The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (Basic), child psychiatrist and trauma specialist Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, and journalist Maia Szalavitz explain how stress can stunt the brain's development, and how affection, consistently offered in a safe environment, can strengthen underdeveloped neural tissue (just like a muscle), enabling abused and neglected children to heal. A profound lesson in simple humanity.
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Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence. Here he tells their stories of trauma and transformation.
About the Author
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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