The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

by Bruce D. Perry

Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.

we tend to prefer the “certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty.”

what works best is anything that increases the quality and number of relationships in the child’s life.