What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
In Chapter 5 of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, The Coldest Heart, Bruce Perry visits with 18 year old Leon in prison in order testify at Leon's sentencing after Leon brutally assaulted and murdered two teenage girls.
Chapter 1 of Perry's book tells the story of his first child client, Tina, who endured sexual abuse during crucial developmental years, resulting in delayed development and trauma responses. When reading this chapter, there are a few instances where I find that I relate to Perry's experiences.
Chapter 7 of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, Satanic Panic, describes Bruce Perry's experiences working with a group of children in the foster care system who had supposedly experienced abused by members of a satanic cult.
Bruce Perry’s Chapter 4 of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, Skin Hunger, depicts the story of Laura and Virginia, a mother and daughter duo who both struggled with attachment trauma associated with Virginia’s past history moving from home to home within the foster care system.
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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.
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.
This is a book about damaged children and the psychiatrist who tried to help them. The two saddest stories are the little girl, a toddler really, who at 3 was being prepared to testify against the man (as the only witness) who had murdered her mother in front of her and then cut her throat. She was too young to know about death and had tried to wake her mother and feed her, give her milk and then laid down on her and sung her lullabies.
The other was the 21 Waco children that David Koresh had taught to distrust everyone outside the compound and, if faced with them, to commit suicide. They watched each other which meant that they tried to preserve the evil culture that was the only one they knew. They supported each other to begin with in a very malign way, but later, this mutual support aided them in their journey towards mental health.
The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog is a non-fiction book.