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

BATB score: 8.8/10 🤍

*Reader Discretion Advised* not for the faint heart 💔 - the description of child trauma cases were explicit, heart-breaking, depressing, and unfortunately true stories.

Best to: this is not a leisure read but an exploratory, educational, specialised read; as a matter of fact, this is a required textbook for undergraduate and graduate classes in sociology, neuroscience, psychology, criminology, and many other disciplines #respect

Best for: keen academic explorers of psychiatry, mental illnesses, child traumas, and how to work with / move on for the betterment of traumatized children; very well-written and insightful - underlying the psychiatrist approach and learnings

Best as: stockholm syndrome, Munchausen's syndrome, Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, abused child traumas; psychological breakdowns, cutting, defiance, shutdowns; psychiatrist care and therapy; the real deal, I tell you