The boy who was raised as a dog

Bruce Duncan Perry Bruce D. Perry Maia Szalavitz Bruce Perry Luca Barahona First published 2006

About this book

Includes material on "genocide survivors, witnesses to their own parents' murders, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence ... explains what happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress, and he reveals how today's innovative treatments are helping ease children's pain, allowing to become healthy adults.

Subjects

case reports
case studies
child psychiatry
child psychiatry, case studies
popular works
post-traumatic stress disorder
psychic trauma in children
stress disorders, post-traumatic
therapy