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

by Bruce D. Perry

This template serves as your primary “world view” on human relationships. It is profoundly influenced by whether you experience kind, attuned parenting or whether you receive inconsistent, frequently disrupted, abusive, or neglectful “care.”

If their parents feed them when they are hungry, calm them when they are frightened, and are generally responsive to their emotional and physical needs, they ultimately build the baby’s capacity to soothe and comfort themselves, a skill that serves them well later when they face life’s ordinary ups and downs.