The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (Audiobook)

from allison.sivak

The author proposes that there is a major connection between how we connect with children through comfort, love, openness, routine, and rhythm and those children's abilities to grow up healthy or to heal from abuse. This resonated with me, strongly. At the same time, he does not suggest that a ha...

from amaraduende

This was so interesting! It was so wonderful to read such amazing stories of recovery.There were also a ton of observations about the brain and psychology that were really interesting - but totally understandable to me, who's only taken a few courses in it.Very interesting and valuable for anyone...

from Phantasma

Wonderful and intelligent. This book is an amazing look not only at how the brain is shaped by early interactions (including trauma) but a look at how amazing recovery can be. Perry handles this potential depressing subject wonderfully. Instead of leaving me appalled at the horrors that people co...

from neotradlibrarian

I put this on my to-read list and then forgot about it. When it resurfaced, I thought it would be like Oliver Sacks The man who mistook his wife for a hat, that is, a look at selected medical oddities that illuminate how we work. Instead it is a look at the latest science in a field that most of ...

from Purplelauralibrarian

As a recently graduated Qualified Child Care Worker with a keen affinity with children who have special needs I have found this book a truly compelling read, and it has emphasised for me how crucial positive adult relationships are to children, especially in the early years. It's been written wit...