Bruce Perry

Maia Szalavitz

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.

And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

Bruce D. Perry

An inside look at the power of empathy: Born for Love is an unprecedented exploration of how and why the brain learns to bond with others—and a stirring call to protect our children from new threats to their capacity to love From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults, their bodies and brains seek an intimate connection, a bond made possible by empathy—the ability to love and to share the feelings of others. In this provocative book, renowned child psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry and award-winning science journalist Maia Szalavitz interweave research and stories from Perry's practice with cutting-edge scientific studies and historical examples to explain how empathy develops, why it is essential for our development into healthy adults, and how it is threatened in the modern world. Perry and Szalavitz show that compassion underlies the qualities that make society work—trust, altruism, collaboration, love, charity—and how difficulties related to empathy are key factors in social problems such as war, crime, racism, and mental illness. Even physical health, from infectious diseases to heart attacks, is deeply affected by our human connections to one another. As Born for Love reveals, recent changes in technology, child-rearing practices, education, and lifestyles are starting to rob children of necessary human contact and deep relationships—the essential foundation for empathy and a caring, healthy society. Sounding an important warning bell, Born for Love offers practical ideas for combating the negative influences of modern life and fostering positive social change to benefit us all.

Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

Born for Love

Journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling Unbroken Brain tackles the revolutionary concept of harm reduction, how it can transform the treatment of addiction, and how it holds the potential to revolutionize our treatment of behavioral and societal issues. In her New York Times bestseller Unbroken Brain, journalist Maia Szalavitz took an unflinching look at addiction, challenging the idea of the "broken brain" to offer a groundbreaking perspective on addiction as a learning disorder. Now she turns her keen eye and narrative powers to the surprisingly simple--and extremely divisive--practice of harm reduction, which is a revolutionary means to solving the drug addiction crisis. Drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But in the name of "sending the right message," we have criminalized drug addiction, denied those who are addicted medical care, housing and other benefits, and have deliberately allowed the spread of fatal diseases. Yet there is an alternative to our present system, one that has been proven to work, but which runs counter to the received wisdom of our criminal and medical industrial complexes. It is called harm reduction. A surprisingly simple idea with enormous power, harm reduction takes the focus off of drug use and instead works to minimize associated damage. It represents the philosophy behind needle exchange programs and providing heroin addicts with the overdose medication naloxone instead of arresting them. It is focused not on punishing pleasure but on minimizing harm; in essence, it is a wholesale refutation of the American way of justice. Undoing Drugs tells the story of harm reduction. It will show how this concept has begun to transform the treatment of addiction and how it holds the potential to revolutionize how we deal with a range of other urgent behavioral and societal issues. Harm reduction challenges people to prioritize radical empathy and kindness over punishment as a way of not only dealing with drug use, but also in questions related to racism, sexism, disability and inequality. And, as Szalavitz shows, it says unequivocally that we must be more concerned about saving lives and health than about criminalizing quality-of-life crimes. Szalavitz argues for a practical application of the Hippocratic oath to "First, do no harm" beyond medicine and to those who urgently need it most.

The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction

Undoing Drugs

A renowned psychiatrist reveals how trauma affects children--and outlines the path to recovery "Fascinating and upbeat.... Dr. Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist." --Mary Pipher, PhD, author of Reviving Ophelia How does trauma affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Only when we understand the science of the mind and the power of love and nurturing, can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.

More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment. Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality," Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention and policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a spectrum -- and they can be a normal response to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is, and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery- and why there is no "addictive personality" or single treatment that works for all. Combining Maia Szalavitz's personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research, Unbroken Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction.

A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

Unbroken Brain

Brent W. Jeffs

The nephew of the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Warren Jeffs, describes his experiences growing up on the compound, the devastating loss of two of his brothers, and his decision to leave the Church.

Lost Boy

Bruce Duncan Perry

ve bir çocuk psikiyatristinin not defterinden çıkmış diğer hikayeler

Köpek gibi büyütülmüş çocuk

An investigative exposâe of the brutal conditions in treatment programs designed for troubled teens cites scaremonger tactics used by top programs as well as the survival stories of young people who have been abused by them.

How the Troubled-teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids

Help at Any Cost

en andere verhalen uit het dagboek van een kinderpsychiater

De jongen die opgroeide als hond / druk 1

¿Qué pasa cuando se traumatiza un cerebro joven? ¿Cómo afecta el terror, el abuso o un desastre en la mente de un niño? El psiquiatra infantil Bruce Perry ha ayudado a muchos niños a superar horrores inimaginables: supervivientes de genocidios, testigos de asesinato, adolescentes secuestrados y víctimas de violencia familiar. Mediante la observación de estas historias de trauma a través de la lente de la ciencia, Perry nos revela la asombrosa capacidad del cerebro para la curación. Combinando las historias de casos inolvidables con sus propias estrategias de rehabilitación, explica lo que ocurre exactamente en el cerebro de un niño expuesto a un estrés extremo y propone diferentes medidas que se pueden tomar para aliviar su dolor, ayudándole a crecer como un adulto sano. A través de las historias de niños que se han recuperado física, mental y emocionalmente de las circunstancias más devastadoras, el autor expone cómo las cosas más simples —el entorno, el afecto, el lenguaje, el contacto, etc.— pueden influir profundamente, para bien o para mal, en un cerebro en desarrollo. En este interesante documento, Bruce Perry demuestra que solo cuando entendamos la ciencia de la mente podremos tener la esperanza de curar el espíritu de casi cualquier niño, incluso el más afectado.

Y otras historias del cuaderno de un psiquiatra infantil

El chico a quien criaron como perro

Ertuğrul Memed Koç

Empati olmadan sevgi olmaz

Sevmek için doğarız

Bir cocuk psikiyatristinin not defterinden sira disi öyküler

Köpek Gibi Büyütülmüs Cocuk

Joseph Volpicelli

In RECOVERY OPTIONS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE, you will learn what addiction is--and what it isn't. You will examine both the mechanism of addiction and how you can make the best treatment choices...why some people are particularly prone to substance problems...and the genetic and learning mechanisms that help create these conditions.

Maia Szalavitz

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