Analysis Of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog By Juce Perry

“The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog” by Dr. Bruce D. Perry is an extraordinary book following many cases of child trauma that Dr. Perry has worked on. In each of its 10 chapters it describes one child who experienced trauma and how it affected them and Dr. Perry tries to find out why they turned out the way they did. It is really interesting as he isn’t trying to prove or disprove anything, he just is figuring out how experiences when you are young can affect you later on. Even though most people don’t experience things like this it helps him to better understand the human mind and human reaction to trauma. The stories were very unique and interesting. They were often very upsetting as I would like to think that this stuff doesn’t happen to anyone. I can’t believe what some of these children had gone through. Some of these stories, especially The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog, reminded me of the Michael Apted film, “Nell” (1994). In the film, Jodie Foster plays a woman who was raised in the woods until adulthood, never meeting anyone except her mother. She is not able to develop any social skills and she can’t talk and has violent outbursts. Many of the children in these stories have …show more content…
This was about a 4-year-old girl who was believed to have the first case of “infantile anorexia. I thought her trauma was so interesting because her brain was really and truly affecting her entire body. Her mother gave her very little physical affection and this led to her brain not developing properly. She developed this infantile anorexia and wouldn’t grow, even with tube feeding. They believed she had a form of “failure to thrive” due to her brain not developing properly. This is so scary and interesting because her brain relies so much on affection to help shape it and without it the body begins to shut down. Her body essentially shuts down and is not able to properly live because of the neglect she