Trauma and recovery

The aftermath of violence—from domestic abuse to political terror

Paperback, 290 pages

English language

Published Jan. 21, 1997 by BasicBooks.

ISBN:
978-0-465-08730-3
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OCLC Number:
36543539

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When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims.

In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surrounding the topic have shifted within the clinical community and the culture at large. Trauma and Recovery brings a new level of understanding to a set of problems usually considered individually. Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context.

Meticulously documented …

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When I trained as a psychoanalyst, this book had already been published and yet I got next to no training on trauma. Reading it also made it clear to me that I had been a trauma victim myself and that in many respects, my view of the world wasn't so idiosyncratic as typical of trauma survivors. I only denied it its 5th star because it is now a bit dated with its ties to the medical model (though she does criticize it as well.)

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Subjects

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Treatment

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