The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About

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Basic Books, Dec 5, 2007 - Psychology - 288 pages
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.
 

Contents

Introduction 1
1
1 Tinas World 7
7
2 For Your Own Good 31
31
3 Stairway to Heaven 57
57
4 Skin Hunger 81
81
5 The Coldest Heart 99
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6 The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog 125
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7 Satanic Panic 155
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9 Mom Is Lying Mom Is Hurting MePlease Call the Police 203
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10 The Kindness of Children 215
215
11 Healing Communities 231
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Appendix 247
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Acknowledgments 251
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Notes 255
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Index 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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