Deep Evil: How Our Body Is Affected by Childhood Trauma and What to Do to Break This Cycle

How do childhood traumas affect our health?

In this groundbreaking book, pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris chronicles the journey of research and scientific discoveries in several North American laboratories and in her own pediatric clinic in a low-income community in San Francisco, USA. Based on a study involving more than 17,000 adult patients, she analyzes how, and how profoundly, our bodies can be influenced in the long term by childhood adversities, which change our biological systems and whose effects can last a lifetime, whether in the form of stress responses, growth rates, diabetes, asthma, heart disease, or many other diseases. For parents and caregivers, educators, and health professionals; and also anyone who has had a difficult childhood or who cares about the millions of children who experience traumatic experiences, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions presented in Deep Evil contribute to the understanding of how childhood adversity affects our health, influencing our lives or the lives of those we love, and, most importantly, what the tools for healing are.