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The deepest well : healing the long-term effects of childhood adversity / Nadine Burke Harris, M.D..

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvi, 251 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544828704
  • 0544828704
Subject(s):
Contents:
Discovery: Something's just not right -- To go forward, go back -- Forty pounds -- Diagnosis: the drive-by and the bear -- Dynamic disruption -- Lick your pups! -- Prescription: the ACE antidote -- Stop the massacre! -- Sexiest man alive -- Maximum-strength bufferin' -- Revolution: the rising tide -- Listerine -- In the rearview.
Summary: A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outlined in this book will represent vitally important hope for change. Print run 75,000.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 618.9285 B959 Available 33111008700441
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

" An extraordinary, eye-opening book." -- People



"A rousing wake-up call . . . this highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress." -- Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow



Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego -- a boy who had stopped growing after a sexual assault -- who galvanized her journey to uncover the connections between toxic stress and lifelong illnesses.



The stunning news of Burke Harris's research is just how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEs--adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction, mental illness, and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our biological systems, and lasts a lifetime. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the fascinating scientific insight and innovative, acclaimed health interventions in The Deepest Well represent vitally important hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come​.



"Nadine Burke Harris . . . offers a new set of tools, based in science, that can help each of us heal ourselves, our children, and our world." -- Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-242) and index.

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outlined in this book will represent vitally important hope for change. Print run 75,000.

Discovery: Something's just not right -- To go forward, go back -- Forty pounds -- Diagnosis: the drive-by and the bear -- Dynamic disruption -- Lick your pups! -- Prescription: the ACE antidote -- Stop the massacre! -- Sexiest man alive -- Maximum-strength bufferin' -- Revolution: the rising tide -- Listerine -- In the rearview.

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