Gay A. Bradshaw

Gay A. Bradshaw is an American psychologist and ecologist, and director of The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence.[1] Her work focuses on animal trauma recovery and wildlife self-determination.[2][3] She is the author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity, a book on PTSD in elephants.

Bradshaw's studies were the first to identify Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in non-human animals beginning with free living elephants.[4][5][6] She is the author of a seminal series of articles on great ape psychology, trauma, civil rights, and consciousness.[3][7][8] This work was expanded to parrots, bears, and domestic animals and led to her founding the field of trans-species psychology, the articulation of a vertebrate common model of brain, mind, and behavior that is supported by existing science.[6]

  1. ^ Bradshaw, G.A. (2009). Elephants on the edge: What animals teach us about humanity. New Haven: Yale University Press. http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300167832
  2. ^ Marino, L. (2010). A trans-species perspective on nature. http://onthehuman.org/2010/11/trans-species-perspective/ Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b Bradshaw, G.A. et al. (2009). Developmental context effects on bicultural Post-Trauma self repair in Chimpanzees. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1376-1388.
  4. ^ Siebert, Charles (2006-10-08). "An Elephant Crackup?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  5. ^ "'They're Like Us,' Elephant Researchers Say". ABC News. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  6. ^ a b "The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence – One touch of nature makes the whole world kin". Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  7. ^ Bradshaw, G.A. et al. (2008). Building an inner sanctuary: trauma-induced symptoms in nonhuman great apes. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. 9(1); p. 9-34.
  8. ^ Bradshaw. G.A. (2010). We, Matata: Bicultural living amongst apes, Spring, 83, 161-183.