Trauma and Recovery

Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understand-ing trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Hermán argües that psy- chological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between prívate horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. This edition ineludes a new epilogue by the author assessing what has—and hasn’t—changed in understanding and treating trauma over the last three decades. Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most important psychiatríc works to be published since Freud,” Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we heal.