Re Lenore Terr

Some information on Lenore Terr, M.D. She has been studying and writing about childhood trauma since the 1960s. She is well known for her studies, her teaching, her writing, and her advocacy for children. Her long-term research studies of the kidnapped children of Chowchilla and of the responses of children across the U.S. to the Challenger space shuttle disaster have received wide acclaim. She has written a series of articles on the lives of creative artists. Her books, Too Scared to Cry (Basic Books, 1992) and Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found, (Basic Books, 1994) are important contributions to the public's and the profession's understanding of trauma and memory. Her most recent book, Beyond Love and Work: Why Adults Need to Play, was published in February 1999 by Scribner. She is a two-time Rockefeller Foundation scholar-in-residence at Bellagio, Italy and has won the Blanche F. Ittelson Award and the Samuel G. Hibbs Award of the American Psychiatric Association. She received the 1994 Child Advocacy Award of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Terr teaches at the University of California San Francisco Medical School where she is a clinical professor of psychiatry.

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