What Happened to You?

Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey

Difficult behavior is usually an adaptation to past adversity, not a defect. Understanding how trauma wires the brain changes how we treat ourselves and others.

A conversation between a trauma neuroscientist and Oprah Winfrey reframing behavior around the question "what happened to you?" instead of "what's wrong with you?" — explaining how early adversity shapes the developing brain.