The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

by Nadine Burke Harris M.D.
ISBN-10:
0544828704
ISBN-13:
9780544828704
Pub. Date:
01/23/2018
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN-10:
0544828704
ISBN-13:
9780544828704
Pub. Date:
01/23/2018
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

by Nadine Burke Harris M.D.
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Overview

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle.

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego—a boy who had stopped growing after a sexual trauma—who galvanized her to dig deeper into the connections between toxic stress and the lifelong illnesses she was tracking among so many of her patients and their families. A survey of more than 17,000 adult patients’ “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACEs, like divorce, substance abuse, or neglect, had proved that the higher a person’s ACE score the worse their health—and now led Burke Harris to an astonishing breakthrough. Childhood stress changes our neural systems and lasts a lifetime. 
 
Through storytelling that delivers both scientific insight and moving stories of personal impact, Burke Harris illuminates her journey of discovery, from research labs nationwide to her own pediatric practice in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outlined in The Deepest Well will represent vitally important hope for change. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780544828704
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 01/23/2018
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

NADINE BURKE HARRIS, M.D., is founder and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point. She is the subject of a New Yorker profile and was the recent recipient of a prestigious Heinz Award in 2016, among many other honors. Her TED talk, “I Was Thinking Too Small,” previewed the subject of The Deepest Well, her first book. She lives in San Francisco, California.

Table of Contents

Authors Note ix

Introduction xi

I Discovery

1 Something's Just Not Right 3

2 To Go Forward, Go Back 17

3 Forty Pounds 27

II Diagnosis

4 The Drive-By and the Bear 45

5 Dynamic Disruption 57

6 Lick Your Pups! 77

III Prescription

7 The ACE Antidote 97

8 Stop the Massacre! 117

9 Sexiest Man Alive 135

10 Maximum-Strength Bufferin' 155

IV Revolution

11 The Rising Tide 175

12 Listerine 197

13 In the Rearview 213

Epilogue 223

Appendix 1 What's My ACE Score? 227

Appendix 2 CYW Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire 229

Acknowledgments 231

Notes 235

Index 243

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