Introduction: The prisoner at Pelican Bay
1. Adverse childhood experience and broken attachments
2. The brain and stress in childhood
4. Terror at home : domestic violence
5. Is it part of me? : sexual child abuse
6. Sticks and stones : physical child abuse
7. Down the rabbit hole : when your parent dies
8. Do I matter at all? : physical and emotional neglect
10. The lonely, chaotic wake of parental substance abuse
11. Adrift in an immoral world
12. The seductive embrace of the gang
Epilogue: Where they are now
Appendix A. Interview protocol
Appendix B. Adverse childhood experiences
References (pages [281]-287)
