Trauma and Recovery The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a ground-breaking 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 and frequently using the victims' own words as well as those from classic literary works and prison diaries, Trauma and Recovery is a powerful work that will continue to profoundly impact our thinking.

ISBN:	9780465061716
Publisher:	Little, Brown
Imprint:	Basic Books
Published date:	07 Jul 2015
DEWEY:	616.8521
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	13637
Number of pages:	ix, 326
Weight:	348g
Height:	139mm
Width:	208mm
Spine width:	27mm

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