El psiquiatra infantil Bruce Perry ha ayudado a los niños a enfrentarse a horrores inimaginables: supervivientes de genocidios, testigos del asesinato, adolescentes secuestrados y víctimas de la violencia familiar. En el niño que fue criado como un perro, narra todas estas historias de trauma y su transformacion a traves de la lente de la ciencia, revelando la asombrosa capacidad del cerebro para la curacion, combinando habilmente historias de casos inolvidables con sus propias estrategias de compasion, fundamentales para la rehabilitacion, Perry explica lo que ocurre exactamente en el cerebro cuando un niño esta expuesto a un estres extremo, y pone de manifiesto las inesperadas medidas que se pueden tomar para aliviar el dolor de un niño y ayudarlo a crecer como un adulto sano.
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