Bruce D. Perry

Bruce Duncan Perry (born 1955 ) is an American psychiatrist who is best known for his work in the field of research on neurophysiology in relation to trauma therapy and as the founder of the “neuro-sequential approach to trauma therapy” and “one of the most important pediatric traumatologists in the USA "Applies. He is the founder and board member of ChildTrauma Academy , a Houston -based non-profit organization promoting the upbringing and education of traumatized children. He is also an associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University . In Germany he was best known for his specialist books.

Life

Bruce D. Perry grew up in Bismarck , the capital of North Dakota . He received his undergraduate degrees from Stanford University and Amherst College . He received his medical doctor and doctor of philosophy degrees from Northwestern University . Bruce D. Perry completed his residency at Yale University Medical School . He was a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chicago . There he was a member of the Faculty of Pharmacology and Psychiatry from 1988 to 1991 . From 1992 to 2001 he was Trammell Research Professor of Child Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He was also the head of psychiatry at the college's children's hospital during this period. He also held the post of deputy chairman for the psychiatry research area. In 2001 he was appointed medical director of the Alberta Children's Mental Health Program . He held this post until 2003 and has been there in an advisory capacity ever since. In parallel to these activities, he founded the ChildTrauma Academy , which he has directed since 1990.

ChildTrauma Academy

The ChildTrauma Academy was founded in 1990 under the name Center for the Study of Childhood Trauma at St. Joseph Carondolet Children's Center in Chicago. The center's work was based on Bruce D. Perry's research at the Department of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Pharmacology at the University of Chicago . In 1992, the institution moved to Houston and changed its name to ChildTrauma Programs after Perry took up a position there as head of psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine . The close cooperation between the two institutions during this time also goes back to Bruce D. Perry. Since 1994 the CIVITAS Initiative Chicago has supported the work of the ChildTrauma Program financially, so that from 1995 to 1998 the institution was called CIVITAS ChildTrauma Programs . The final renaming to ChildTrauma Academy took place in 1998 after the content focus had shifted more and more towards interdisciplinary work and judges, paediatricians, foster parents and educators, among others, were involved in the work. Bruce D. Perry has been director of the ChildTrauma Academy since its inception .

Advisory activity

Bruce D. Perry has been asked several times by government organizations, cities and municipalities to provide advisory support in the care of traumatized children after media disasters. The first time was in 1993 after US security agencies stormed the headquarters of the Branch Davidians sect in Waco , and then in 1995 after the Oklahoma bombing . He was also deployed in 1999 after the rampage at Columbine High School , after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina , after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and in 2012 after the rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School . He has been with the Alberta Government since 2003 as a permanent advisor on child mental health issues. TV star Oprah Winfrey also sought advice and support from Bruce D. Perry when cases of sexual violence became known at her private school, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa .

Trivia

Bruce D. Perry's wife, Arlis, was murdered on the Stanford University campus in October 1974 . It was not until 44 years later on June 28, 2018 that the then responsible security guard Steve Crawford was convicted with the help of DNA traces that were found in the victim's clothing. When he was visited with a search warrant, Steve Crawford executed himself with a gun. Bruce D. Perry was temporarily considered a suspect during the investigation but was removed from the suspect list as the investigation progressed.

Publications and perception in the media

One of Bruce D. Perry's goals is to educate the public about his findings on better care and therapy options for traumatized children. To do this, he set up a video channel on YouTube for the ChildTrauma Academy . There are also two documentaries about his work in which he plays himself: The Blender - The Imposter and an episode of Bodyshock . Bruce D. Perry has appeared repeatedly on popular television or radio shows such as: B. the Today Show , the Nightline and the Oprah Winfrey Show . Bruce D. Perry's critical remarks on the subject of diagnosis and drug therapy of ADHD were discussed internationally in the professional public and the media.

In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, Bruce D. Perry has published several books. The two titles that he wrote together with Maia Szalavitz were published in German.

Book publications in German

• Together with Maia Szalavitz: Born for love: why empathy and empathy are so essential , Arbor Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-86781-066-1 .
• Together with Maia Szalavitz: The boy who was kept like a dog: what traumatized children can teach us about suffering, love and healing; from the practice of a child psychiatrist , Kösel Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-466-30768-5 .

Book publications in English

• With Kristie Brandt, Stephen Seligman and Ed Tronick: Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice , American Psychiatric Publishing, Arlington 2014, ISBN 978-1-58562-529-1
• Together with Jana L. Rosenfelt: A Child's Loss: Helping Children Exposed to Traumatic Death The ChildTrauma Academy Press, Houston 2013
• Letter: Reflections on Childhood, Trauma and Society , The ChildTrauma Academy Press, Houston 2013
• Together with Maia Szalavitz: Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential - and Endangered , William Morrow Paperbacks, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-165679-8
• Together with Maia Szalavitz: 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 , Basic Books, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-465 -05653-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruce D. Perry in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bruce D. Perry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz: Excerpt from The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog. Oprah Winfrey , March 2009, accessed September 27, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PERRY, Bruce D .: 'The Boy Who Was Held Like a Dog' [popular science]. (No longer available online.) Dissociation and Trauma, 2008, archived from the original on September 28, 2015 ; Retrieved September 11, 2015 (original website no longer available).  }
2. ^ Dorothea Weinberg: Psychotherapy with complex traumatized children: Treatment of attachment and violent trauma in early childhood . Klett-Cotta Verlag , Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-10406-6 , pp. 209 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ^ Jacqueline Beretta: Children = Priceless. Texas Non Profits, September 2007, accessed September 26, 2015 . 
4. ^ History. ChildTrauma Academy, accessed September 11, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Bruce D. Perry, MD, Ph.D. Berry Street Childhood Institute, accessed September 7, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Bruce D. Perry, MD, Ph.D. (PDF) (No longer available online.) ChildTrauma Academy, archived from the original on September 8, 2015 ; accessed on September 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Bruce D. Perry, MD, Ph.D. Psychology Today , accessed September 27, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Michel Martin: Winfrey: 'A Lot to Be Learned' from Academy Scandal. National Public Radio, November 6, 2007, accessed September 27, 2015 . 
9. ↑ David Louie: Suspect in 1974 Stanford murder case contemplated suicide before . In: ABC7 San Francisco . June 29, 2018 ( online [accessed July 3, 2018]).
10. ↑ Chris Bobonich , Harry Bobonich: Bloody Ivy: 13 Unsolved Campus Murders . AuthorHouse, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4817-4019-7 , pp. 1–12 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
11. ^ The ChildTrauma Academy Channel. YouTube, accessed September 7, 2015 . 
12. ↑ strengthening connections 2012. (No longer available online.) National AIA Resource Center, archived from the original on September 28, 2015 ; accessed on September 26, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Daniel Boffey: Children's hyperactivity 'is not a real disease', says US expert. The Guardian, March 30, 2014, accessed September 7, 2015 .