The Author

Gay Bradshaw is founder and Executive Director of The Kerulos Center. Her founding of the field of trans-species psychology—the theory and practice animal psychological rehabilitation and conservation—began with the discovery of PTSD in wild elephant. She has written about this in her forthcoming book, Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity (Yale University Press, 2009).

Her research has been featured in numerous media, including ABC 20/20, Stern, National Geographic, New York Times, Time, New Scientist, Nature, and the London Telegraph. Much of her research focuses on the effects of violence on and trauma recovery of parrots, elephants, and chimpanzees in captivity. Her area of specialization is elderly individuals who have suffered capture and captivity.

 

 

 

 

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