Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Author(s): Judith Lewis Herman
Health, Illnesses and Our Bodies
Drawing on her own research in domestic violence as well as on the literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, the author shows parallels between private terrors such as rape, and public traumas such as terrorism. The study puts individual trauma in a broader context.
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Winner of the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award, American Psychological Association
* Introduction Traumatic Disorders * A Forgotten History * Terror * Disconnection * Captivity * Child Abuse * A New Diagnosis Stages of Recovery * A Healing Relationship * Safety * Remembrance and Mourning * Reconnection * Commonality * The Dialectic of Trauma Continues
General Fields
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- : Basic Books
- : Basic Books
- : 0.5
- : 30 April 1997
- : 204mm X 135mm X 21mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Judith Lewis Herman
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 617.21
- : 304
- : Psychiatry; Violence in society; Popular psychology