Trauma And Recovery: The Aftermath Of Violence- From Domestic Abuse To Political Terror - Hardcover

Herman, Judith L.

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Synopsis

The author of Father-Daughter Incest explores the psychological consequences of domestic violence, rape, and terrorism, placing individual experience on a broader political frame and arguing that psychological trauma can only be understood in a social context.

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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.

From Publishers Weekly

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