A review by merrrry
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, an by Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

5.0

Is Dr. Bruce Perry giving me the irrational want to be a psychiatrist? Maybe. The stories included here were sad but riveting. Dr. Perry’s empathetic and humanistic approach to his work is highly inspiring, and the cases he chose to highlight were moving. He was able to highlight the importance of not only his own work, but the work of his medical team, research team, social workers, therapists, parents, teachers, police, and countless more people. Emphasis that was placed on less obviously related issues such as intergenerational trauma and the lack of support and care for case workers was also insightful and new (to me). Regardless of the topic or even when he was critiquing something, Dr. Perry was able to relay his stance in an honest, assertive, but empathetic way. It was also very nice to be hit in the end with that fact that Alberta has implemented NMT as the main framework for supportive work. I could not stop listening to this.