When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Hermans 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.
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‘One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.’
PHYLLIS CHESLER, 'The New York Times Book Review'
This classic text reveals the systematic ‘degrading’ of the trauma suffered by women who are victims of rape, incest and domestic violence, as compared to the ‘heroic’ trauma of male war veterans. According to the author. ‘The implications of this insight are horrifying; the subordinate condition of women is maintained and enforced by the hidden violence of men. There is war between the sexes. Rape victims, battered women, and sexually abused children are its causalities. Hysteria is the combat neurosis of the sex war.’
Herman, psychiatrist and award-winning author, calls on 20 years of research and clinical work in this landmark study. She repeatedly challenges orthodoxies as she calls for a new diagnostic category for those suffering from ‘hidden’ traumas, and proposes revolutionary treatment which focuses on re-establishing the capacity for intimate relationships rather than the rehearsing of past trauma. Required reading for anyone who cares about the relationship between the sexes.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.About the Author
Judith Herman, M.D., one of this country's leading experts on trauma and abuse, is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and director of training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital. She is also a founding member of the Women's Mental Health Collective in Massachusetts.
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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful
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I found Herman's discussion of trauma to be thorough, and particularly useful in my clinical practice working with children, and families who are traumatised by crime.
She usefully re-assesses the categorisation of PTSD in cases where people are sexually abused which is a bold but necessary step she's taken.
Herman shows a thorough knowledge of the prejudice that female survivors of childhood abuse often encounter within the mental health system. I found her book able to put into words ideas that were difficult to convey, which has given me an incredibly useful book to recommend to others.
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Having worked my way through Kolk (good), Babette R (good), and several others, I arrived at Herman - who promptly managed to hit the nail precisely on its head. This book is clear and organised, factual and carefully thought-out. That makes it unusual. What makes it exceptional is the weight given to information collected from patients, your basic raw data (not an area in which mental health medicine covers itself in glory). So the conclusions drawn should be accorded respect. Read it. Finally, basic common sense wins through. Thank you.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Finally - and I said this around 10 years ago but the book went out of publication...
12 Dec 2006
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I was given this book to read by a therapist, who specialised in overcoming childhood sexual and emotional abuse. She knew (and was and is, one of the top people in the UK) that one of my 'coping mechanisms' was to read around and understand the topic more fully. I never rely upon just one person's opinion or analysis of a situation, including my own, and have benefitted from the objective view of others to enable me to come to an informed understanding.
This book was one of the very few, and certainly one of the most beneficial, in terms of the objective view, which helped me gain an enormous amount of help with my own subjective view, in that it helped me realise this (and no, I wasn't off me trolley! lol) was actually what I was experiencing. More importantly, at the time and since, has helped me talk to professionals in such a manner, that I can sound rational (after many, many years of being told I should have this put behind me and just get on with things...) and intelligently informed. What is very rewarding for me (sometimes, particularly when I have felt quite drained by the whole thing, I feel like I've been one of the original ones beating the path through), is that finally this can been recognised as being genuine, that complex, or chronic PTSD does actually exist.
Read this book, be informed and hang on to what you know. There are many professionals who still have not quite got there yet. This book was the first 'medical' and 'professional' book that gave me that knowledge, that what I was experiencing, was not in my imagination.
I cannot recommend this one highly enough for those who are ready to read it - and even to those who think they might not be. And many thanks to Sue, who gave me the opportunity to read it for the first time.
This book was one of the very few, and certainly one of the most beneficial, in terms of the objective view, which helped me gain an enormous amount of help with my own subjective view, in that it helped me realise this (and no, I wasn't off me trolley! lol) was actually what I was experiencing. More importantly, at the time and since, has helped me talk to professionals in such a manner, that I can sound rational (after many, many years of being told I should have this put behind me and just get on with things...) and intelligently informed. What is very rewarding for me (sometimes, particularly when I have felt quite drained by the whole thing, I feel like I've been one of the original ones beating the path through), is that finally this can been recognised as being genuine, that complex, or chronic PTSD does actually exist.
Read this book, be informed and hang on to what you know. There are many professionals who still have not quite got there yet. This book was the first 'medical' and 'professional' book that gave me that knowledge, that what I was experiencing, was not in my imagination.
I cannot recommend this one highly enough for those who are ready to read it - and even to those who think they might not be. And many thanks to Sue, who gave me the opportunity to read it for the first time.
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This book is a classic in trauma and how trauma affects people.
This book is not your usual self help book but a classic in the subject of trauma and recovery. It helped me understand a great deal about trauma. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs A.G. Howarth
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Phew!
Heavy going but I did learn from it. I think one needs to know more about the subject but maybe better expressed in a novel like Sophie's choice by Styron if you are a layperson
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trauma bible
This is absolutely the best book I have found to date on the impact of and potential recovery from trauma, fluidly written and covers all aspects without shying away from the heart... Read more
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A valuable book, although there are other more up-to-date and informative books on trauma out. It would not be my trauma book of choice. Read more
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Absolutely blown away by this book. Stunned by the fact that somebody out there gets it. So well written, and so thoughtful, insightful and compassionate. Read more
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Although this book is obviously a 'heavy' subject it is very easy to read. Full of information, the auther brings together research results and her own insights to make this an... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Lyn Knight
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Good book - poor printing
This is an interesting book with thought provoking themes and Ideas in regard to supporting clients who are sufferring the effects of trauma. Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2010 by Sparky6887
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Trauma and Recovery
I bought this book because I have been studying the subject of abuse. I found it extremely helpful and informative.
Heavy subject written with compassion and understanding.
Heavy subject written with compassion and understanding.
Published on 21 July 2010 by Jane
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I have only dipped into this work a few times as yet but already I know it's a 'milestone' book for me. Read more
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