“Humans are social animals, highly susceptible to emotional contagion. Training, logic, and intelligence are often no match for the power of groupthink.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“Through moderate, predictable challenges our stress response systems are activated moderately. This makes for a resilient, flexible stress response capacity. The stronger stress response system in the present is the one that has had moderate, patterned stress in the past.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“Children become resilient as a result of the patterns of stress and of nurturing that they experience early on in life,”
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“You are My friends if you do what I command you.”
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“One of the few things I knew for sure by then about traumatized children was that they need predictability, routine, a sense of control and stable relationships with supportive people.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
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