The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing | 
|  | | | Title: | The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing | | Author: | Bruce Perry
Maia Szalavitz | | Publisher: | Basic Books | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 24 December, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0465056539 / 9780465056538 | | List Price: | $15.95 | | You Save: | $5.10 | | Amazon Price: | $10.85 | |
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A world-renowned child psychiatrist takes us inside his pioneering work with trauma victims to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on how stress and violence affect children's brains--and how they can be helped to heal. 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.
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• Great Learning Tool 14 September, 2008
I have read dozens of books on how to help children over the years, and I feel this is one of the best. It not only was very informative, it was a easy read. Each chapter kept me spellbound, because it read like a story. I made sure I underlined all the important parts as I read, and wrote a little summary at the end of each chapter so I would never forget the information. Their was lots of information on the effects of childhood trauma, and how to help these children cope. I would have this as a must read for all people who work with young children. The book helps adults to keep an open mind about childrens behavior and recieve insightful tips on why some children exhibit unusual behavior. I am looking forward to other books by this author. He is a very talented doctor and author.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1MRRBA4FBDVFS
• Excellent Book 16 December, 2008
I was very impressed with this book. We are raising an adopted boy from Romania, and have had some considerable challenges along the way. This book illuminates the crucial understanding of how we get lost in power struggles, as our own personal issues get projected onto our son, due to his underlying stress. This book has greatly helped us in understanding his inner world. This has changed our relationship in a number of positive ways. I highly recommend this book.
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• Remarkable Book By An Outstanding Child Psychiatrist 10 June, 2008
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 The book is highly readable consisting of some of the more interesting and challenging cases that Bruce Perry has encountered. Perry is a remarkable child psychiatrist. I wish there was some way to clone him and make him available in every community around this country. The next best thing is that we can all learn from him, not only from this truly remarkable book but from his Child Trauma Academy website: [...] which includes many of his papers and offers on-line courses for the serious student of his work. He has established himself as one of the leading authorities on the neurobiology of child trauma, especially known for his study of children who have been abused and neglected. But even these impressive credentials do not do him justice. You can't help but be deeply moved when reading his book written with an award winning journalist (Szalavitz). His compassion, empathy, and dedication to his child and family patients reminds me of some of the wonderful psychiatrists I have met along the way in the days when insurances companies were still willing to pay psychiatrists for time to listen to and talk to their young patients and not just the minimum possible time it takes to decide on a prescription. In fact, the need to listen to children and their families is a reoccurring theme throughout this book and the harm that can result when the time is not taken to carefully, listen, and appreciate the whole picture is also noted. I nearly was moved to tears of joy when I came to this paragraph: "Of course, medications can help relieve symptoms and talking to a therapist can be incredibly useful. But healing and recovery are impossible--even with the best medications and therapy in the world--without lasting, caring connections to others. Indeed, at heart it is the relationship with the therapist, not primarily his or her methods or words of wisdom that allows therapy to work" (p.232). Perry also observes, "The most traumatic aspects of all disasters involve the shattering of human connections. And this is especially true of children" (231). I found Perry's message to resonate with my own clinical experiences and convictions again and again and can't remember anything I read that ran counter to my clinical experience or philosophy. I was especially thrilled to see him take up the baton regarding an issue that is dear to my heart because the late Walter Bonime, M.D., a psychoanalyst that I studied with for over a decade in New York City, wrote about this extensively. Perry, like Bonime, before him sees one extremely unhealthy feature of contemporary Western culture to be the hyper-competitiveness that drives parents to load kids up with such extensive academic, sports, and activity schedules that parents have little time to talk to their children, hug their children, and the children have little time to engage in free play with children in the neighborhood. As a result children are often deficient in essential social skills because they get few opportunities to enjoy playing with other children, resolving conflicts or negotiating compromises. I could go on for pages about the things I loved about the book but some things are better left for you to read. I am sure you will not be disappointed.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AC4YUQCL3AFV6
• Excellent Book 06 January, 2009
Dr. Perry did the first presentation I ever heard related to the effects of trauma on children. I work with foster parents who are licensed through a Juvenile Court. This book is a great summary of Dr. Perry's experience with traumatized children since the beginning of his career. He presents a great perspective on how the brain processes trauma and how behaviors manifest as coping skills. One of my foster parents has also read the book. She commented that your brain has to be in the learning mode when you read it but that it has helped her better understand some of the children she has had in her care.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A116TT3CG5G3IK
• The Boy Who Was Raised As Adog 02 June, 2008
Bruce Perry, author of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, is truly an emotionally intelligent man! In his book he shows the depth of his empathy and invaluable connection with traumatised children.
Perry combines his knowledge of how the brain works with an intrinsic heart felt warmth. When finding which link was not connected in the brain of a very young traumatised baby/child, he draws on the strengths of genuine community love to nutritiously feed the heart, brain and soul of that child.
His holistic approach is a refreshing change from stories of medical intervention which address the physical need of the body only.
Parenting for a Peaceful World
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