The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

As they lay sheet after sheet over each other, the team found that the data showed a totally different picture than any of them had expected. The distribution of trauma symptoms was not clustered around Ground Zero, which were largely middle-class neighborhoods. Instead, the greatest groupings of trauma symptoms corresponded strikingly with the communities of deepest poverty.