Trauma and Recovery, Judith Lewis Herman
Trauma and Recovery, Judith Lewis Herman
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Trauma and Recovery
The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Author: Judith Lewis Herman

Narrator: Alison Mathews, Xe Sands

Unabridged: 11 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 12/10/2019


Synopsis

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)

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.

This edition includes a new epilogue by the author assessing what has—and hasn’t—changed in understanding and treating trauma over the last three decades.

Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud,” Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we heal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas

I first fanboy squealed on page 11, when Judith Lewis Herman created a connection between mental illness and feminism, two of my favorite topics. In the first third of Trauma and Recovery, Herman discusses the history of trauma and how trauma relates to many other concepts, such as politics and warf......more

Goodreads review by Shira

update on this review: 15 Sept, 12017 HE, about 2 years or so after first read: at the bottom... So I guess I'm in Stage 3, now !!! :-) Original review, circa. 2010:5 This book, for me, was a horrible read. Horribly accurate. Yet hopeful as well. Horrible to see that I am not so different after all -I......more

Goodreads review by Tinea

I can't do this book justice with a review. Feminist, short, and packed with information about what PTSD is, how it comes about, and how to heal it. Applied philosophy resulting in the sort of "holy shit!" moments that had me dragging friends out on long walks around lakes and organizing two-person......more


Quotes

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

"A landmark."—Gloria Steinem

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

"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

"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