
Trauma and Recovery
The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
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Xe Sands
About this listen
The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)
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 research on incest, as well as 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.
This edition includes 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 psychiatry works to be published since Freud,” Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we heal.
©2015 Judith L. Herman (P)2019 Basic BooksCritic reviews
"One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud."—New York Times
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Great book about ptsd
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Excellent book
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This should have been the first book I read.
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Great book. Monotone reader.
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Very impressed!
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10⭐ & without question or doubt... the MOST transformational for me, on my healing journey!
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There are difficult passages to listen to, whether they trigger grief for all that has been lost to the individual, or horror in the stories of other trauma survivors.
But it is worth pushing through to face the revelations that can heal. I would recommend this for anyone who is lost and adrift and looking for answers, or for anyone dealing with the clinical psychological treatment of people. I would recommend that everyone should read it really, but I know that it is hard for people who have not been subject to traumatic experiences to face that which can be hidden in the world around them.
Thank you to Judith Herman for speaking clearly for those who have often been marginalised, ostracised and disbelieved.
Also, for showing commonality across different traumas such as domestic abuse survivors, sexual abuse survivors, traumatised war veterans and survivors of the holocaust. It is only by seeing things as a whole that we can begin to address all forms of deep generational trauma suffered globally.
Life changing and life affirming.
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Wonderful and Important for therapists and petient
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A must read
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