Lenore terr biography of michaels

American psychiatrist (born 1936)

Lenore C. Terr (born New York City, 1936) is a psychiatrist and author known for her research into childhood trauma.^[1] Terr graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School with an MD.^[1] She is the winner of the Blanche Ittleson Award for her research on childhood trauma.^[2] Terr is noted for her work studying the after-effects of the 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping on the 26 children who were buried alive for 16 hours after being kidnapped from a bus.^[3]

Too Scared To Cry

Terr's book Too Scared to Cry (Basic Books, 1990) is divided into four parts focusing on childhood psychic trauma: emotions, mental work, behavior and treatment and contagion.

The book describes several cases that illustrate the problem of children's statements and behaviors that are based in factitious traumatic events. Terr concludes children who suffered trauma before the age of three years are rarely able f