Maia Szalavitz
Maia Szalavitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction and author or coauthor of six other books. She is one of the premier American journalists covering addiction and drugs. Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids was the first booklength expos of the tough love business that dominates addiction treatment. She has written for numerous major publications from High Times to the New York Times, including TIME, the Washington Post, the Guardian, VICE, Scientific American, and the Atlantic. She is coauthor, with Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, of the classic work on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and also Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential And Endangered.
