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I think perhaps this rivals The Body Keeps the Score as the best trauma book out there. The Body gives us some history on the emergence of PTSD as a new diagnosis, dealing with Vietnam War veterans, and other adult traumas. The Boy deals with children, � and has much more useful insight and solutions. It is focused on kids and not healing adults, which leaves it short of encompassing all aspects of trauma, but it is a great book. This also gave good insight on dissociation from one chapter dealing with that. I reviewed the 3rd edition here, not the original. He has 90 minutes worth on what he’s learned on each of the cases in the 10 years since the original book. Good stuff.

He definitely makes a case for highly repetitive, safe, loving interactions at the the psychological developmental level of the child, which may be far less than the chronological level of the child.

It didn’t have a structure or narrative arc to unify or telegraph the story. That gives it the never ending where are we even going feel, so it isn’t a high 5-star, but among trauma books, where writing general is low quality, this is relatively good.