Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence---From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror -- Judith Lewis Herman, Paperback Matthew Faber Publishers Weekly 08/21/2017

Publishers Weekly 08/21/2017

"Filled with vivid details

and electrifying

celebrated by NPR as “her most fully realized project yet

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence---From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror -- Judith Lewis Herman, Paperback Matthew Faber Publishers Weekly 08/21/2017The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a "classic for our generation" (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast