Taylor Benson’s Reviews > The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook > Status Update

it truly takes a village

emotionally disconnected mother. stunted growth. mimicked behaviors.

unfamiliarity activates stress response. hyperarousal and dissociation; independent but can coexist. control over trauma; reenactments. “patterned, repetitive stimulus leads to tolerance, while chaotic, infrequent signals produce sensitization.”

developmental trauma. associations and experience form a foundation. unconscious behaviors.

chapter 1 breaks my heart.