Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror By Judith Herman ISBN: 9780465087303 Published: 1997 Number of Pages: 304 Edition: Reprint Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Basic Books Description: 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.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  97012136
   - LC control Number: 97012136: 36543539
   - Canceled/invalid LC control number:  91045346

International Standard Book Number: 0465087302: 0465087302 (alk. paper)

Level of Bibliographic Control and Coding Detail: ws

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: RC552.P67
   - Item number: H47 1997

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 21
   - Classification number: 616.85/21

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Herman, Judith Lewis,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1942-

Title Statement
   - Title: Trauma and recovery /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Judith Lewis Herman ; [with a new afterword by the author].
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Judith Lewis Herman.

Edition Statement: [Rev. ed.]: Rev. ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: BasicBooks,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1997.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xi, 290 p. ;
   - Dimensions: 21 cm.

General Note: Originally published : [New York, N.Y.] : BasicBooks, c1992.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-281) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: 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 -- Afterword. The dialectic of trauma continues.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Source of heading or term: [MeSH]
   - Source of heading or term: bclaw
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Post-traumatic stress disorder
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Post-traumatic stress disorder.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Psicoterapia.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Psychology_and_Psychiatry
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Psychotherapy.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
   - General subdivision: etiology.
   - General subdivision: therapy.
   - General subdivision: Treatment.