Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

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.

General Information

ISBN : 9780465087303
Publisher : Basic Books
Imprint : Basic Books
Weight (g) : 0.5
Publication date : 30 April 1997
Produced in : United States
Product Type : books

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Author : Judith Lewis Herman
Bind : Paperback
Language : English
Dewey classification : 617.21
Pages : 304
BIC subject : Psychiatry; Violence in society; Popular psychology

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Winner of the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award, American Psychological Association

Table of contents

* 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