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Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence Paperback - 2014 - 1st Edition

by Robin Karr-Morse; Meredith S. Wiley; Introduction by T. Berry Brazelton

As groundbreaking as Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring, Ghosts from the Nursery" presents startling evidence on how abuse and neglect during the first two years of life is creating a tide of violent youth.


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In the middle of the night, on May 11, 1993, in the rural Northwest, an eighty-four-year-old man was bludgeoned to death.

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  • Title Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
  • Author Robin Karr-Morse; Meredith S. Wiley; Introduction by T. Berry Brazelton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2014-01-07
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780871137340 / 0871137348
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.2 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97015096
  • Dewey Decimal Code 618.928

About the author

ROBIN KARR-MORSE is a family therapist in private practice. She is the former Director of Parent Training for the Oregon Child Welfare System, previously the founding Director of the Oregon Children's Trust Fund and is currently the founding Director of the Parenting Institute. She is a consultant to several policy groups working to reimagine and shift social policy from its sole focus on remediation toward prevention of trauma in children's development. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

MEREDITH S. WILEY is the former State Director of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids New York. She lives in Mariposa, California. Karr-Morse and Wiley are coauthors of Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease.

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