title: Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood
author:  Lenore Terr 
description: Terr, child psychiatrist at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, explores the dire effects of childhood trauma, defined here as "a single overwhelming experience or a series of overwhelming ordeals." She focuses on the 1976 abduction of a group of children in Chowchilla, a California farm town, who were seized from a bus as they were returning from day camp. The author, who interviewed the victims soon after their release from the abandoned rock quarry where they were buried, and who continues to make periodic assessments of the children, analyzes their attendant losses in cognitive and emotive function. Expanding on her Chowchilla research, Terr discusses post-traumatic behavior patterns she discerns in the works of writers such as Poe, Hawthorne and Stephen King, and in the films of Ingmar Bergman. Written in an anecdotal format, the book is penetrating and illuminating. <br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Little Psychic**
  
  
  **V.C. Andrews**
  
  
  Copyright © September 2001 by the Vanda General Partnership
  
  
  ISBN 0-7434-4868-5
  
  
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  Mommy told me that even when I was a little girl—only three, in fact—I would
  say things and ask things that astounded my family. My paternal great-
  grandmother, Sophie, who was still alive then, often crossed herself when in
  my presence and especially whenever I looked intently at her. She had been
  born in Europe and believed in something called the Evil Eye. When she was
  dying, she asked my father to bring me to her bedside. I can vividly remember
  him holding me in his arms and Great-grandmother Sophie struggling in her
  weakened state to reach up to touch me.
  
  
  “Great-grandmother Sophie is very sick,” my daddy said.
  
  
  I shook my head.
  
  
  “Not sick,” I insisted.
  
  
  “Not