Bruce D. Perry quotes
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“For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.â€â€¦The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation”
-- Bruce D. PerrySource : Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.220, Hachette UK
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“The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”
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“Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.”
-- Bruce D. PerrySource : Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.85, Hachette UK
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“Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.”
-- Bruce D. PerrySource : Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.16, Hachette UK
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“The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”
-- Bruce D. PerrySource : "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing". Book by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavit, 2006.
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“It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.”
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“Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love”
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“More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.”
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Source : Adriana Trigiani (2009). “Very Valentine”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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