Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook by Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz

12 reviews

anupammahadeo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad fast-paced

4.5

Very few books by psychiatrists or medical professionals humanize their patients and discuss their own choices in the past with as much humility and honesty as Dr. Perry did in this book. Child psychiatry is a daunting field for many medical professionals, and patients are often seen as somewhat hopeless and sad cases; Dr. Perry does not dispute this stereotyping in this book but rather uses his remarkable wealth of empathy to demonstrate the complexity of these patients' lives and stories while also attempting to use their stories as calls for action and hope. He avoids exploiting their stories for dramatic purpose or shock value and rather produces a book calling for empathy, love, and attention to societies' most vulnerable people. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Rape, Bullying, Confinement, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

overduck's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

I cannot express how much I love this book. I learned so much about the brain and how we respond to trauma, and I was wholly inspired by the book. It was a bit of a dense read (it is, after all, often used as a textbook), but I still couldn't put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Child abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Grief, Pedophilia, and Panic attacks/disorders

daphnefree72's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Really incredible, fascinating book highlighting a neuropsychologist’s interactions with his child patients. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Self harm, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Physical abuse, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Drug use, Grief, Gore, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Panic attacks/disorders

xread_write_repeatx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Incest, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, and Body horror

audriew9's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Self harm

squid_sunfish's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

gracieec's review against another edition

challenging informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical content, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Ableism, Torture, Violence, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Drug abuse, Excrement, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Death, and Drug use

literarymaven's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Violence

mmsween's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

rami_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book was very difficult to read; the author recounts some of the worst cases of child abuse imaginable. That being said, it also provides the read with tremendous hope, mostly via fascinating insights into proven methods of treating trauma.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical content, Confinement, Self harm, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Addiction, Child abuse, and Pedophilia