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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 Loss, Love, and Healing
Author(s): Bruce D. Perry (Author), Maia Szalavitz (Author)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication Date: 25 Dec. 2007
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0465056539
- ISBN-13: 9780465056538
Book Description
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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About the Author
Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on children in crisis. Dr. Perry is the Provincial Medical Director in Children’s Mental Health for the Alberta Mental Health Board. In addition, he is the Senior Fellow of the ChildTrauma Academy (www.ChildTrauma.org), a Houston-based organization dedicated to research and education on child maltreatment. Dr. Perry has been consulted on many high-profile incidents involving traumatized children, including the Columbine, Colorado school shootings, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Branch Davidian siege. 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.
