Editorial Review:

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.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

great learning tool:

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... more info

Remarkable Book by an Outstanding Child Psychiatrist:

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... more info

The Boy Who Was Raised as aDog:

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... more info

Brilliant and heartening:

Assisted by a talented science writer, child psychiatrist Bruce Perry presents a series of heartbreaking stories of children severely damaged by trauma. But that's only one side of this remarkable book. The other side is how many of these profoundly damaged children were assisted to heal.
Perry explains his "neurosequential" approach that sequentially targets brain regions left undeveloped by abuse or neglect. He presents compelling cases to illustrate how the child's age at the time of the abuse or... more info

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