Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror / Edition 1

by Judith L. Herman, Judith Herman

Overview

When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surrounding the topic have shifted within the clinical community and the culture at large.Trauma and Recovery brings a new level of understanding to a set of problems usually considered individually. Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. Meticulously documented and frequently using the victims’ own words as well as those from classic literary works and prison diaries, Trauma and Recovery is a powerful work that will continue to profoundly impact our thinking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780465087303
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	05/28/1997
Series:	Art of Mentoring Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1330L (what's this?)

About the Author

Judith Herman, M.D., one of this country’s leading experts on trauma and abuse, is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and director of training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital. She is also a founding member of the Women’s Mental Health Collective in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I
Traumatic Disorders
1. A Forgotten History
2. Terror
3. Disconnection
4. Captivity
5. Child Abuse
6. A New Diagnosis

PART II
Stages of Recovery
7. A Healing Relationship
8. Safety
9. Remembrance and Mourning
10. Reconnection
11. Commonality
Afterword: The Dialectic of Trauma Continues

Epilogue to the 2015 Edition

Editorial Reviews

"One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud."—New York Times

"A landmark."—Gloria Steinem

"A
book of luminous intelligence. You must read it as soon as possible."—Sophie Freud

"Astute, accessible, and beautifully documented. Bridging the worlds of war veterans, prisoners of war, battered women, and incest victims, Herman presents a compelling analysis of trauma and the process of healing. A triumph."—Laura Davis, coauthor of The Courage to Heal

"Brilliant."—Boston Globe

"This book will surely become a landmark work on the social impact of psychological trauma and on its treatments.... A magnificent gift to survivors."—Women's Review of Books

"A stunning achievement ... a classic for our generation."—Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score

"Herman's brilliant insights into the nature of trauma and the process of healing shine through in every page of this rich and compassionate book."—Lenore Walker, ED.D., Director, Domestic Violence Institute, and author of Terrifying Love

"Herman links the public traumas of society to those of domestic life in this provocative work of psychiatric theory."—Publishers Weekly

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