Dr. Bruce Perry, co-author of “What Happened to You?” with Oprah Winfrey | Compassion in Action

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Dr. Bruce Perry is the Principal of the Neurosequential Network, Senior Fellow of The Child Trauma Academy and a Professor (Adjunct) in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago and the School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria Australia. Over the last thirty years, Dr. Perry has been an active teacher, clinician and researcher in children’s mental health and the neurosciences holding a variety of academic positions. His work on the impact of abuse, neglect and trauma on the developing brain has impacted clinical practice, programs and policy across the world. Dr. Perry is the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of "The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog", a bestselling book based on his work with maltreated children, "Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered", and most recently "What Happened To You?" with Oprah Winfrey.

In this interview we discuss:

What is Dr. Perry’s definition of Trauma?
Same trauma effects people differently
3 E’s of Trauma: Event, Experience and Effect
Significance of Childhood Trauma and Developmental Trauma
Regulation vs. Dysregulation
Self Soothing
Reactivity
3 R's: Regulate / Relate / Reason
People living in their brain stem... Addicts , people living and working in prison
How do we heal in prison?
Living in the brain stem
Functional IQ
GETTING TO THE CORTEX
HEALING IN COMMUNITY

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