Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed. A new epilogue reviews what has changed-and what has not changed-over two decades. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as on 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. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. In the intervening years, it has become the basic text for understanding trauma survivors. When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work.
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