Trauma and Recovery

The aftermath of violence—from domestic abuse to political terror

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Trauma and Recovery

The aftermath of violence—from domestic abuse to political terror

2015 edition
  • 4.6 (5 ratings)
  • 161 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
  • 14 Have read

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.

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Basic Books
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English
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482

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Published in
New York, NY, USA
Copyright Date
2015

Contributors

Epigraph
Salman Rushdie
Author name as appears on this edition
Judith Herman, M.D.
Epilogue
Judith Herman, M.D.

The Physical Object

Format
ebook
Number of pages
482
Weight
0.327

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Open Library
OL34013735M
ISBN 13
9780465098736
OCLC/WorldCat
921927738
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OL2652815W

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THE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA has a curious history-one of episodic amnesia.
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