When Judith Herman''s Trauma and Recovery was first published
five years ago, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the
intervening years, Herman''s now classic volume has changed the way
we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a
new introduction, Herman chronicles the incredible response the
book has elicited and explains how the issues surrounding the topic
of trauma and recovery have shifted within the clinical community
and the culture at large. Trauma and Recovery brings a new level of
understanding to a set of problems usually considered individually.
Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research on domestic violence,
as well as on a vast literature of combat veterans and victims of
political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors
such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts
individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that
psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context.
Meticulously documented and frequently using the victims own words
as well as those from classic literary works and prison diaries,
Trauma and Recovery is a powerful work that will continue to
profoundly impact our thinking.
關於作者:
Judith Herman, M.D., one of this country’s leading experts on
trauma and abuse, is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at
the Harvard Medical School, and director of training at the Victims
of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital. She is also a founding
member of the Women’s Mental Health Collective in
Massachusetts.
目錄:
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