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

In this landmark work, a preeminent scholar establishes a revolutionary model for understanding and treating trauma survivors

“One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.” ―New York Times

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 resea...