What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

by Bruce D. Perry

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Personal Growth & LeadershipPsychology & Mind

Swap what's wrong with you for what happened to you, and behavior starts to make sense. That's the reframe Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey build these conversations around: early adversity shapes the developing brain, so the way you react as an adult often traces back to what you lived through as a child.

Core ideas
  • The science side: Perry, a psychiatrist at the ChildTrauma Academy in Houston who developed the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, explains how childhood trauma and adversity affect brain development.
  • Her own history: Winfrey draws on her experience of early trauma, so the conversation moves between his research and a life shaped by it.
  • Case by case: Case studies trace how early experience shapes the way adults react and relate.
Published2021
Pages304
ISBN9781250223180
ReadJan 2023

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