Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to

Author: Judith Herman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war....Read more