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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…

By Maia Szalavitz, Bruce D. Perry

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| Paperback | 9780465056538

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Book Description

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 unimaginabContinue

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I got some really valuable information on how kids who have suffered through trauma behave and react from this book. I'm hoping it'll prove to be valuable in dealing with my daughter's behavior.

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Heather Landry said on Aug 4, 2011 | Add your feedback

This book is extremely interesting and well written; I find it precious from the point of view of a parent, but I'm sure I'd love it even if I had no kids. It teaches about the modern mind, what we have learnt from brain science and from poor kids who have been extremely unlucky in life. Ends up bei ... (continue)

This book is extremely interesting and well written; I find it precious from the point of view of a parent, but I'm sure I'd love it even if I had no kids. It teaches about the modern mind, what we have learnt from brain science and from poor kids who have been extremely unlucky in life. Ends up being a pageturner, too...

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Lenz said on May 10, 2009 | Add your feedback