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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 616.8521 EAN: 9780465087303 ISBN: 0465087302 Label: Basic Books Manufacturer: Basic Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: May 29, 1997 Publisher: Basic Books Studio: Basic Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Move Over Freud: Future Definitive Psychology ClassicThis book is a must read for anyone, male or female, who has suffered tragedy/abuse due to someone else's actions and who is struggling to make sense of their lives in the aftermath. It's not fair to label this book as a post-traumatic stress book: it is soooo much more than that. The author explains how trauma affects the psyche: particularly the developing psyche, explains the cycle of abuse, explains crime and the criminal mind, and pedophile behavior in a way that no one has before. The author ... Read More Rating: - A classic, read it if you haven't beforeWritten from the heart as well as the head, Trauma and Recovery is the best introduction to what is more technically known as post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. But don't let that scare you off! It is about what happens to people--may have happened to you or people you know--under conditions of fear, helplessness, torment, abuse, that many people discount as "not having been so bad really." What Judith Herman shows very elegantly and simply is how the body and mind change, are altered ... Read More Rating: - A study of trauma and a process for healingTraumatic experiences can permanently scar or change you. In this groundbreaking work, Judith Herman meticulously explores the impact of trauma on the human psyche, whether the trauma originates from a natural disaster, political terror, captivity or combat. Writing from a feminist political perspective, Herman also investigates traumas that result from domestic abuse, incest and rape, areas largely unexplored before the 1970s. She describes the symptoms of those who have experienced trauma, explains why ... Read More Rating:  - For ClassI bought this book for a class I'm taking in college. It was very helpful and informative. Herman discusses several different types of trauma and coping mechanisms. Rating:  - Feminist view of traumaDr. Herman has a new book out with almost the same title; I have not read it, so don't know how it compares to this one. This seems to me to be a view of trauma from a feminist clinician and researcher's point of view, not from a victim's or survivor's. The author is at pains to legitimize the fact of abuse to her psychiatric colleagues and to the public. Male readers will probably have a lot of trouble with it, since male survivors are mentioned almost exclusively when they are combat veterans. ... Read More 
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