New edition of the world best seller about child's trauma, translated into 26 languages. The known psychiatrist Брюс Перри tells ten histories of the little patients that outlived stunning blows : became the victims of physical or sexual violence, witnesses of murders, brought up in a sect or outliving a genocide. Cases from his practice and long-term scientific researches prove: psychological traumas have huge influence on development of child and his psyche, and children forget nothing, as specialists considered before. But a timely and professional help can return such children to normal life and allow to them grow by healthy adults. In the book doctor Перри exposes the surprizing capacities of brain and psyche for renewal and gives a hope on healing.