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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 Loss, Love, and Healing
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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 Loss, Love, and Healing
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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 Loss, Love, and Healing

    Written by Maia Szalavitz and Bruce D. Perry

    Narrated by Danny Campbell

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    About this audiobook

    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 transformation. Dr. Perry clearly explains what happens to the brain when children are exposed to extreme stress. He reveals his innovative methods for helping to ease their pain, allowing them to become healthy adults. This deeply informed and moving book dramatically demonstrates that only when we understand the science of the mind can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateOct 31, 2011
    ISBN9781452674834
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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 Loss, Love, and Healing
    Author

    Maia Szalavitz

    Maia Szalavitz is the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead, 2006), which led to state investigations into the industry as well as federal legislation. She is a senior fellow at media watchdog STATS.org and has written for the New York Times, Elle, Time magazine online, and the Washington Post.

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    • 4/5
      This was so interesting! It was so wonderful to read such amazing stories of recovery.

      There were also a ton of observations about the brain and psychology that were really interesting - but totally understandable to me, who's only taken a few courses in it.

      Very interesting and valuable for anyone with children in their lives. At times hard to read, but thankfully Perry doesn't dwell on the traumas, only on the process of recovery. Perry also seems to be a great human being - and this book is written well, too.
    • 4/5
      The author proposes that there is a major connection between how we connect with children through comfort, love, openness, routine, and rhythm and those children's abilities to grow up healthy or to heal from abuse. This resonated with me, strongly. At the same time, he does not suggest that a hardened criminal needs only be treated with kindness in order for that criminal to be able to reintegrate into society. But this book was so much about *hope,* I could not help but love it.
    • 3/5
      A insightful and inspiring case studies on the effect of trauma in children.
    • 5/5
      As a recently graduated Qualified Child Care Worker with a keen affinity with children who have special needs I have found this book a truly compelling read, and it has emphasised for me how crucial positive adult relationships are to children, especially in the early years. It's been written with such a positive spin on it, and although it at times moved me to tears, it left me in wonder about how tenacious the human spirit can be, and how important my role as both a parent and as a carer of children is.
    • 4/5
      Wonderful and intelligent. This book is an amazing look not only at how the brain is shaped by early interactions (including trauma) but a look at how amazing recovery can be. Perry handles this potential depressing subject wonderfully. Instead of leaving me appalled at the horrors that people commit against children (which I was), it left me feeling amazed at how children can handle and cope with amazing things. I was left, not with disgust, but with hope.
    • 5/5
      fascinating look at how trauma affects children and what can be done to help them. wonderful explanation of how the developing brain is affected by trauma
    • 5/5
      Excellent book. The author explains how the brain develops and functions through compelling stories of children who survived terrible experiences that caused severe detrimental impacts to their brains, and consequently, their life.
      Along the way he also comments on and teaches us what children and all people need to lthrice

      All caretakers, medical professionals politicians, teachers, police, and parents - in short- everyone- would benefit from reading this book

      And, Dr Perry is a pleasant person who tells an interesting story that is important, easy to understand, and wise.
    • 5/5
      Thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it to be most informative and useful to my work with children and families.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely fascinating and captivating book about neurological development and how our experiences shape who we become! You don’t have to have children or work with them to be able to
    • 3/5
      Intriguing dive into traumatic childhood. Posits that human development requires extensive touch, modeling, and acceptance, yet our societies police touch, encourage individual action, and apply punishment. Child DXs like ADD, addiction, self harm are rooted in trauma. Wished author connected car real
    • 5/5
      I put this on my to-read list and then forgot about it. When it resurfaced, I thought it would be like Oliver Sacks The man who mistook his wife for a hat, that is, a look at selected medical oddities that illuminate how we work. Instead it is a look at the latest science in a field that most of us don’t understand well – how early experience of children can have life long consequences. The good news is that they don’t have to be crippling consequences. Despite the horrific nature of some of the cases, some of the children made substantial recoveries. The lengthy subtitle gives a true flavor: 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 by Bruce D. Perry. So what is the book about? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Branch Dravidians and their surviving children. How to grow a psychopath. Mainly it is about the human brain: how it develops and why it often doesn’t, what can be done to restore or obtain undamaged functioning, why childhood matters. Perry is a child psychiatrist (M.D. and Ph.D.) with an interest in neurochemistry and brain development. After conventional training, he comes to realize just how little we know and how much we can learn from those who have been traumatized if we will only listen and observe. I recommend this book to all who deal with children and yes, I know that means just about everyone. This will make my best of the year list.