Trauma And Recovery: The Aftermath Of Violence--from Domestic Abuse To Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman

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

Judith Lewis Herman

288 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health psychology challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Are there parallels between private terrors like rape and public traumas such as terrorism? This important work of synthesis offers a new framework for understanding and healing. "Every politically committed person of the 1990s will learn from it"...

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