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“Para poder desenvolverse socialmente, la gente necesita desarrollar lo que se conoce como "teoría de la mente". Dicho de otro modo, necesitan saber que las demás personas son distintas a ellos, que tienen un conocimiento distinto del mundo, así como deseos e intereses diferentes a los suyos.”

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Book:The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
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“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had this wariness were more likely to survive to reproduce. It was just safer to assume danger- and expect the worst- than to count on the kindness of strangers.”

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Book:Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered
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“La memoria es la capacidad de seguir adelante arrastrando ciertos aspectos de la experiencia. Incluso los músculos tienen memoria, algo que puede apreciarse con los cambios que se producen en ellos como resultado del ejercicio. No obstante, y más importante aún, la memoria es lo que el cerebro hace, el modo en que nos forma, y permite que nuestro pasado ayude a determinar nuestro futuro. En gran medida, el cerebro nos convierte en quienes somos(...).”

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Book:A Child's Loss: Helping Children Exposed to Traumatic Death
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“Creamos recuerdos, pero los recuerdos también nos crean a nosotros, y se trata de un proceso dinámico en constante cambio que está sujeto a sesgos e influencias de diversas fuentes ajenas al acontecimiento actual que tenemos "almacenado". Lo que experimentamos primero filtra lo que vendrá después.”

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Book:The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
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“Los seres humanos temen aquello que no comprenden. Lo desconocido nos asusta. Cuando conocemos a personas cuyo aspecto o acciones no nos resultan familiares, sino extrañas, nuestra respuesta inicial es mantenerlas a una cierta distancia. Dependiendo del momento, deshumanizamos o degradamos a las personas que son diferentes para sentirnos mejores, más listos o más competentes. Las raíces de muchos de los peores comportamientos del hombre -racismo, discriminación por edad, misoginia, antisemitismo, por mencionar algunos- existen en esta respuesta básica mediada por el cerebro a una amenaza percibida. Tendemos a tener miedo de lo que no comprendemos, y el miedo fácilmente puede convertirse en odio o en violencia, puesto que puede suprimir las partes racionales de nuestro cerebro.”

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Book:The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
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“The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”

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Book:The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
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“For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation”

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Author:Bruce D. Perry
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“Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.”

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“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, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.”

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