Trauma and Recovery : From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - Softcover

Herman, Judith Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863584306 ISBN 13: 9780863584305

Publisher: Pandora, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., is a leading expert on trauma and abuse and an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.

Jo Anna Perrin is an accomplished actor who has appeared in film and television, as well as on stage in New York, Los Angeles, and regionally. The narrator of numerous audiobooks, Jo Anna has garnered critical praise from AudioFile magazine, Booklist, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly.

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Pandora
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0863584306
• ISBN 13: 9780863584305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302