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Trauma and recovery : the aftermath of violence -- from domestic abuse to political terror / Judith L. Herman.

Herman, Judith Lewis, 1942- (author.).

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781541602953 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: ix, 469 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: Fourth trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"With a new epilogue by the author"--Title page.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I. Traumatic disorders -- Chapter 1. A forgotten history -- Chapter 2. Terror -- Chapter 3. Disconnection -- Chapter 4. Captivity -- Chapter 5. Child abuse -- Chapter 6. A new diagnosis -- Part 2. Stages of recovery -- Chapter 7. A healing relationship -- Chapter 8. Safety -- Chapter 9. Remembrance and mourning -- Chapter 10. Reconnection -- Chapter 11. Commonality -- Afterword : the dialectic of trauma continues (2015) -- Epilogue (2022).