Bruce D. Perry

“The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation. I”

— Bruce D. Perry

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love

— Bruce D. Perry

Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.

— Bruce D. Perry

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built…

— Bruce D. Perry

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the…

— Bruce D. Perry

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no…

— Bruce D. Perry

It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.

— Bruce D. Perry

“We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.”

— Bruce D. Perry

More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real…

— Bruce D. Perry

“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those…

— Bruce D. Perry

“When a baby gets hungry and cries his levels of stress hormones will move upward. But if Mom or Dad regularly comes…

— Bruce D. Perry