Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma In Childhood
In 1976 twentysix California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr’s landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma...
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In 1976 twentysix California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr’s landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she’s treated but all of us.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780465086443 (0465086446)
ASIN: 0465086446
Publish date: 1992-06-24
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
One of my mother's favourites. She's constantly referring to it. Looks scary to me. Real life horror. Maybe one day, when I'm feeling brave.
The insightful parts of this book are when she's observing the behavior of traumatized children, especially the group kidnapped on the bus. The less good parts deal with repressed memory, and the book's 1980's age really shows there. The bad parts of the book read like the papers of a frustrated e...
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