{"id":7778,"date":"2021-04-20T23:09:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wondermentgardens.com\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2021-04-20T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:36:36","slug":"the-boy-who-was-raised-as-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wondermentgardens.com\/the-boy-who-was-raised-as-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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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.\u00a0 <\/em>By Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D and Maia Szalavitz.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This was a fantastic book about what we can learn from maltreated, abused, and neglected children. But more than that, this book illustrates the journey of a psychiatric fellowship from reductionistic, diagnosed-based thinking to holistic thinking and treatment strategies.<\/p>

In the beginning of his career in child psychiatry and research, Dr Perry struggles to find a way to help the children coming to him for help. He talks in great length about the limitations within the system and in the training of the time. He didn\u2019t feel the children in his care fit standard diagnostic criteria, as it was based on symptoms rather than environmental or historic influences.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Luckily, he had mentors on both sides of the fence. One was very much entrenched in the modern medical view of diagnosis and protocol-oriented treatment options, while the other had a more flexible and encouraging approach. I love the way he struggled to find the best treatment methods to help each person in his care.<\/p>

As he grew as a clinician, Perry began to truly understand that how a person presents in the moment reflects their personal and developmental past. Over time, he and his fellows began to look at the whole person, rather than just the symptoms. They stopped diagnosing or \u201clabeling\u201d people and began to \u201cmap\u201d the functional development of each individual. To accomplish this, they looked at the history of each person and not just behavioral or interventional histories. They looked at physical, mental, emotional, and developmental backgrounds. They talked to doctors, teachers, parents, and other people involved with each child with the goal of putting together a picture of that person and what was going on.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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