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

- Bruce D. Perry

Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, n…

- Bruce D. Perry

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

- Bruce D. Perry

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself…

- Bruce D. Perry

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

- 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 in isolation.

- 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

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

- Bruce D. Perry