Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma In Childhood

Lenore Terr

Aug 2008 · Sold by Basic Books

About this ebook

In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us.

Ratings and reviews

I read this to try to get a sense of how childhood trauma might transition into adulthood and, as a result, saw patterns in my life that led to important insights. It's a very interesting read.

About the author

Lenore Terr, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the winner of the Blanche Ittleson Award for her research on childhood trauma.