Bruce Perry

Bruce Perry, MD, PhD, is the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, based on his work with maltreated children, and Born For Love: Why Empathy Is Essential and Endangered. His most recent book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, was coauthored with Oprah Winfrey. Formerly, he was faculty at the University of Chicago and Baylor College, and chief of psychiatry at Texas Children’s Hospital. Currently, he’s the principal of the Neurosequential Network and an adjunct professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.