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Trauma and Recovery
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror | Judith L. Herman
A revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking work that changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, it has become the basic text for understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. 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. A new epilogue reviews what has changed--and what has not changed--over two decades. Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.
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Sydneypaige
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This is a really informative book about the history and research of trauma. However, being published in the 50s means it‘s extremely outdated in many ways. Particularly in the language that is used, and lacking much intersectionality when it comes to who is most impacted by trauma in systemic ways. I would recommend as a foundational text about trauma though!

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Your $5 or $10 can mean a lot to survivors living with the effects/affects of trauma! Corporations are matching donations in the US. Consider survivors when deciding if and where to give today! Thanks! #GivingTuesday #supportsurvivors #everylittlebithelps

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Bibliogeekery
Trauma and Recovery | Judith Lewis Herman
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I believe her. I believe you. 💖

That-Bookish-Hiker Same. ❤️❤️ 6y
saresmoore ♥️💔♥️💔 6y
VioletBramble Me too. Once he admitted that he had previously lied under oath I knew he was not fit for the SC. 6y
Andrea4 😢😢😢😢 6y
CuriousG YES! I still remember when I worked with a young woman who had been raped. It took literally 2 years of me saying this to her multiple times every single day, for her to even *start* to believe she hadn't "just got drunk, had sex, regretted it, and then made the rape up" like the cop who investigated told her parents (who also believed the COP over their own daughter!) ? 6y
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In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator's first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens. To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated..

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mhippo
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"It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing."

Bibliogeekery 💓 This book! As a psychotherapist I use Herman's trauma model regularly in my work. 8y
mhippo @Bibliogeekery Yes! It's so insightful and well written too. 8y
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