Trauma And Recovery Av Judith Herman

<P><B>The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of <I>The Body Keeps the Score</I>)</B><BR/><BR/><I>Trauma and Recovery</I> 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.<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>Hailed by the <I>New York Times</I> as “one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud,” Trauma and Recovery