Top 10 Bruce D. Perry Quotes

#1. Negative emotions often make things even more memorable than positive ones because recalling things that are threatening - and avoiding those situations in the future if possible - is often critical to survival.

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#2. We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

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#3. 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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#4. 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.

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#5. Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

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#6. Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.

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#7. It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.

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#8. Fire can warm or consume,
water can quench or drown,
wind can caress or cut.
And so it is with human relationshps;
we can both create and destroy,
nurture and terrorize,
traumatize and heal each other

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#9. Biology isn't just genes playing out some unalterable script. It is sensitive to the world around it,

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#10. 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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