Trauma And Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman

Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed. Trauma and Recovery represents the fruits of two decades of research and clinical work with victims of sexual and domestic violence. Focusing on establishing safety, stability, and self-care, the Trauma Information Group (TIG) is a Stage 1 approach within Judith Herman's influential stage model of treatment. In Truth and Repair, she commits the radical act of listening to survivors.

A new epilogue reviews what has changed-and what has not changed-over two decades. Infused with clinical wisdom, this book describes a supportive group treatment approach for survivors just beginning to come to terms with the impact of interpersonal trauma. Herman argues that the first step toward a better form of justice is simply to ask survivors what would make things as right as possible for them. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as on a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. In the intervening years, it has become the basic text for understanding trauma survivors. Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work.

Trauma And Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman