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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

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

by Maia Szalavitz and Bruce D. Perry
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/12/2007

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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.
ISBN:
9780465056538
9780465056538
Category:
Psychology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-12-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Basic Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
139x203x21mm
Weight:
0.28kg
Maia Szalavitz

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.

Bruce D. Perry

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, 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.

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