Particularize Books To The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Original Title: | 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 |
ISBN: | 0465056520 (ISBN13: 9780465056521) |
Edition Language: | English |
Bruce D. Perry
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 4.55 | 15233 Users | 1440 Reviews

Identify Epithetical Books The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Title | : | The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook |
Author | : | Bruce D. Perry |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
Published | : | January 8th 2007 by Basic Books |
Categories | : | Psychology. Nonfiction. Science. Health. Mental Health. Social Science. Social Work. Parenting. Education |
Relation Toward Books The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, he tells their stories of trauma and transformation through the lens of science, revealing the brain's astonishing capacity for healing. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what exactly happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress-and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease a child's pain and help him grow into a healthy adult. Through the stories of children who recover-physically, mentally, and emotionally-from the most devastating circumstances, Perry shows how simple things like surroundings, affection, language, and touch can deeply impact the developing brain, for better or for worse. In this deeply informed and moving book, Bruce Perry 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.Rating Epithetical Books The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Ratings: 4.55 From 15233 Users | 1440 ReviewsJudgment Epithetical Books The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
This book should be read by everyone who cares for children professionally. We know that children are abused and suffer, yet when we meet some of these children we often don't understand how to help them. This book of stories from Doctor Perry's practice shows us children who come from backgrounds of neglect or abuse. These stories tear at your heart, but knowing that Doctor Perry and others are using what we know about neuroscience to heal offers us hope. If anything, reading this book willPerry refutes the adage that children are resilient, and walks us through the cases of traumatized children -- the consequences on their psyches and behavior, and how to heal them.A few minutes of stress for baby rats can affect their brain into adulthood. Yet these children are expected to handle abuse, witnessing the murder of a parent, systematic neglect... What seems to affect them the most is the lack of love, even while medical diagnoses are offered. A disruptive girl has ADD, of course.
This was recommended to me by a colleague. I thought it would be a disturbing read and put of off for ages, however despite some of the horrendous cases, the book is not a shock and awe text. Its actually quite uplifting. Dr Perry has a gifted way of explaining the connections between trauma, neuroscience and psychotherapy, which is accessible to the lay reader. His model of recovery assumes that children can be healed by receiving the stimulation they missed at certain developmental points.

So, I started this book LAST summer. I went in blind and I had been expecting detailed case studies about the children and how Perry treated them.That is not what this book is, whatsoever. Which is why I put it down last summer. But when I came back to it this summer, with different expectations, I couldn't put it down. If you're looking for a set of case studies about traumatized children, this is NOT for you. This book is more of a narrative in which Perry recalls some of his cases and relates
Loved the way it was written. Very easy to digest and process. The reported episodes were very challenging to process and picture, touching and heartbreaking. I highly recommend this book cause it explains at length how the brain develops during childhood and how trauma and nurturing can affect development, and the author manages to deliver the message in simple terms and very clearly
Using case studies from the author's practice, this book focuses upon the incredible growth, development and malleability of the human brain. Depending upon your personal preferences, you may or may not appreciate the author's frequent digressions into the biology of the brain to describe what his patients are experiencing. The fairly frequent discussion of animal experimentation saddened me, especially when considering that numerous experiments conducted in the name of psychological science
0 Comments