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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 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Bruce D. Perry (Author), Maia Szalavitz (Author), Chris Kipiniak (Narrator),
4.8 out of 5 stars 8,843 ratings

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.

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  1. Listening Length
    13 hours and 10 minutes
  2. Author
    Bruce D. Perry, see all
  3. Narrator
    Chris Kipiniak
  4. Audible release date
    September 24, 2018
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Hachette Audio
  7. ASIN
    B07HJBHFTB
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 13 hours and 10 minutes
Author Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
Narrator Chris Kipiniak
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date September 24, 2018
Publisher Hachette Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B07HJBHFTB
Best Sellers Rank #4,122 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#6 in Psychiatry (Books)
#10 in PTSD
#10 in Violence in Society (Books)

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Customers find the book captivating and easy to read, with one noting it's written in a clinical way that's not too upsetting. Moreover, the book is highly informative and eye-opening, helping readers understand childhood trauma and its effects on brain development. Additionally, customers appreciate the author's expertise, describing him as a magnificent clinician, and find the personal narratives emotionally moving. However, the heartbreaking nature of the stories receives mixed reactions from customers.

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642 customers mention "Readability"614 positive28 negative

Customers find the book easy to read and captivating, with many noting it's a must-read for child care professionals.

"...have no children and never plan to work with them, this book is worth reading...." Read more

"...This is a MUST read for anyone- trauma victims, mental health care professionals, or anyone else, interested in new ways of working toward healing..." Read more

"This book is an incredible and thought provoking read...." Read more

"...I found the book well set out with each child’s case generally having it's own chapter but with obvious overlaps as disassociation and hyper arousal..." Read more

482 customers mention "Insight"482 positive0 negative

Customers find the book informative and eye-opening, providing helpful information and knowledge behind every word.

"...You will find some excellent stories about how touch therapy can renew and enhance neural pathways or how dance and movement can help a child regain..." Read more

"This book is an incredible and thought provoking read...." Read more

"...This isn't a highbrow academic text book but it IS academic and it is essential reading for anyone who works with, or has care of young people who..." Read more

"...well-narrated, and Dr. Perry's writing style is easy to read and interesting...." Read more

282 customers mention "Trauma awareness"276 positive6 negative

Customers appreciate how the book helps understand children with trauma, intertwining stories with scientific information about how trauma affects developing brains, and provides a dedicated approach to healing these children.

"...some excellent stories about how touch therapy can renew and enhance neural pathways or how dance and movement can help a child regain natural..." Read more

"...This is a MUST read for anyone- trauma victims, mental health care professionals, or anyone else, interested in new ways of working toward healing..." Read more

"...Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog" is an excellent book full of real-life examples of children who have experienced severe trauma and successful therapies..." Read more

"...structured as a series of case reports, but in a way that advances his themes, repeats key points, and highlights contrasts in the outcomes for some..." Read more

144 customers mention "Heartbreaking"131 positive13 negative

Customers find the book emotionally moving and compassionate, with personal narratives that are both heart breaking and profound.

"...He approaches them slowly and with the utmost respect for their personhood...." Read more

"...for the need for community, extended families, cooperation and empathy in our lives in order for our brains to develop healthily...." Read more

"...his successes and failures of disturbed children, with intelligence, compassion and authority...." Read more

"...It is a "paradigm shifter" that does so quietly and with grace...." Read more

17 customers mention "Pacing"17 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's pacing and find the author to be a magnificent clinician, with one customer noting that the author is beyond the abilities of the average therapist.

"...Dr. Perry is one of the greatest living therapists/psychiatrists working with highly traumatized children...." Read more

"...someone remarkable - not just a very fine writer, not just a magnificent clinician, but oh, so great a human being...." Read more

"...how to deliver therapy in cases that appear to be beyond the abilities of the average therapist...." Read more

"...The author is a doctor and a child psychiatrist...." Read more

39 customers mention "Heartbreaking stories"22 positive17 negative

Customers find the stories in the book heartbreaking and emotionally difficult to read.

"...The book is carefully structured as a series of case reports, but in a way that advances his themes, repeats key points, and highlights contrasts..." Read more

"I found this book so interesting. The stories used are heartbreaking, but the methods used to help the victims are fascinating." Read more

"...The book is also broken into manageable chapters." Read more

"This book had me in tears, I genuinely thought I wouldn’t be able to finish...." Read more

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  • bunnyrabbit4
    5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading For Everyone
    Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2010
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    Dr. Perry is not just a psychiatrist who spends his time listening to and diagnosing clients. He is a maverick, willing to break the rules whenever needed and play detective rather than assert his expertise. By taking this approach to his young clients and studying not just their symptoms, but the treatment they were given from birth, he follows the brain as it develops. What he learns is of value to everyone. We were all children once.

    As he talks us through each of the cases covered in this book, we get a strong sense of his love for and understanding of the traumatized children. He approaches them slowly and with the utmost respect for their personhood. Like Alice Miller, he is acutely aware of the ways in which we seek to control or diminish small lives and the horrific consequences that sometimes result. But his quest is not just to address the psychological, it is to probe the way the brain itself forms and what can be done when its components lag or turn off.

    You will find every kind of child in this book, those who murder, those lacking normal social responses and those unable to thrive physically. In each case Dr. Perry reaches back into their past to uncover how the brain was encouraged to or discouraged from developing in corresponding ways. What is different about Perry's work is how he uses with this information. You won't find the perfect drug to control a child mentioned here. You will find some excellent stories about how touch therapy can renew and enhance neural pathways or how dance and movement can help a child regain natural psychological and physical cycles. In every case he fully explains what he did and why and gives full credit to those who taught him along the way. I am not talking about other doctors here, but people such as a foster mother and the children themselves.

    Even if you have no children and never plan to work with them, this book is worth reading. If you are an adult who has always felt out of sync with the world, you may find an explanation here.I found quite a few ah-ha moments and a great deal of personal food for thought. If you are an adherent of mind/body medicine, much of what he says will appeal to you as well.
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  • Pierre
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect confirm & money toward a good cause
    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2025
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    I'm so happy with my purchase. It arrived quickly and it's in perfect condition. Even better that I was able to support Goodwill at the same time.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Perfect confirm & money toward a good cause

    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2025
    I'm so happy with my purchase. It arrived quickly and it's in perfect condition. Even better that I was able to support Goodwill at the same time.
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  • Dawn M. Kennedy
    5.0 out of 5 stars FACINATING
    Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2025
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    Dr. Perry is a veritable genius when it comes to working with trauma victims. He is at the forefront of trauma research and development of treatments that actually work. This is a MUST read for anyone- trauma victims, mental health care professionals, or anyone else, interested in new ways of working toward healing childhood trauma. Highly recommended!
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  • Lindsey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking read
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2025
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    This book is an incredible and thought provoking read. It makes you consider how children who are abused and neglected grow up to be adults who still face that trauma, and while we have empathy for them as children, that empathy often fades once they are adults. I recommend this book to friends often! 100% would recommend.
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  • Helen Simpson
    4.0 out of 5 stars “Resilient children are made not born”
    Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2022
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    A fascinating insight into some of the children the author has worked with in his role as child psychiatrist. This isn't written in a tabloid style of true story anthologies despite it's title which would have completely put me off buying if it hadn't been recommended by a colleague. Instead it it a book that looks at the children and their families that Dr Perry worked with and how they presented (or were labelled) and discusses how far too often children are medicated or labelled with various disorders rather than looking in more depth at their formative years (or indeed year, with the first 12 months of life being so important for children's development).

    Working in therapeutic childcare I sadly already knew that children are too often over medicated and diagnosed with ADHD, Hyperactivity and Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD) when in actual fact they are presenting symptoms synonymous with trauma.
    I found the book well set out with each child’s case generally having it's own chapter but with obvious overlaps as disassociation and hyper arousal response are discussed and the neuroscience that demonstrates how important human responses and caring are to babies.

    This isn't a highbrow academic text book but it IS academic and it is essential reading for anyone who works with, or has care of young people who have experienced trauma and have behavioural concerns. However, I defy any interested parent not to find this both interesting and useful. I found myself thinking at times that it was common sense (and having to remind myself that I had a happy and safe upbringing as well as prior training in trauma and neuroscience) but, this is common sense backed up with theory and success of practice.

    I have only deducted a star for the title which I feel is sensationalistic.
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  • Amy Bird
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2025
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    Outstanding book. Highly informative using easy to understand language and logical structure. Would recommend to all. Gained a better understanding of brain development and function. One of the best books I have ever read.
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  • WAGNER MATTOS
    5.0 out of 5 stars trauma infantil
    Reviewed in Brazil on June 27, 2020
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    Pungentes relatos de alguém que dedicou sua vida a tratar de crianças tramatizadas.Necessário a todos os profissionais que militem na área
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loveeeeee this book
    Reviewed in Canada on October 23, 2024
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    I love this book, I've read it about 5 times and lend it out to everyone I know. It explain trauma and how to help people over come it (and allows hope for those working with children with significant trauma)
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  • Buen producto a buen precio
    5.0 out of 5 stars Such an incredible book!!!
    Reviewed in Mexico on May 19, 2024
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    I read it in Spanish but old version, and then last year on November if I remember well I got this new edition and is spectacular with the new notes and stuff.

    Fully recommended!!
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    Buen producto a buen precio
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Such an incredible book!!!

    Reviewed in Mexico on May 19, 2024
    I read it in Spanish but old version, and then last year on November if I remember well I got this new edition and is spectacular with the new notes and stuff.

    Fully recommended!!
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  • Gabriellen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Molto educativo
    Reviewed in Italy on January 13, 2022
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    Ho comprato questo libro dopo aver letto “The body keeps the score” e devo dire che segue molto quella linea di pensiero. Mi è piaciuto molto, rispettoso dei pazienti citati senza mettere in evidenza dettagli degli abusi.
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