The Deepest Well
Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
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Average rating4.3
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Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Ratings9
Average rating4.3
A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems, and what we can do to break the cycle.
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Part professional memoir, part advocacy apple crate pitch, part self-promo, this engaging book by paediatrician Nadine Burke Harris chronicles her work in linking science around developmental trauma and lifelong health outcomes with applied practice as a doctor and health professional. It's a must read for any health professional, regardless of your familiarity with ACEs or the physiology of the stress response.
Burke-Harris' occasional venture into that tenor of self promotion common to American entrepreneurism is not too invasive and can be seen as a creature of the environment she campaigned within.
I thought the book did an okay job introducing childhood trauma, but it should've went in more depth about the implications of childhood trauma that isn't just directed from the parents. I think that exploring other factors of childhood trauma, such as bullying from school settings and experiencing racism from growing up in a predominantly white town, would've improved the book by a lot.
