Trauma And Recovery: The Aftermath Of Violence--from Domestic Abuse To Political Terror

Herman, Judith Lewis

ISBN 10: 0465087663 / ISBN 13: 9780465087662

Edité par Basic Books, 1993

N° de réf. du vendeur 0465087663-3-18981606

Synopsis :

This work offers a new framework for understanding and healing. It asks are there parallels between private terrors like rape and public traumas such as terrorism?

Présentation de l'éditeur: When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman's volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surrounding the topic 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 in domestic violence as well as on the 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Trauma And Recovery: The Aftermath Of ...
Éditeur : Basic Books
Date d'édition : 1993
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good