Trauma and Recovery
豆瓣
The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Judith L. Herman
简介
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.
contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
part i Traumatic Disorders
Chapter 1 A Forgotten History 7
Chapter 2 Terror 33
Chapter 3 Disconnection 51
Chapter 4 Captivity 74
Chapter 5 Child Abuse 96
Chapter 6 A New Diagnosis 115
part ii Stages of Recovery
Chapter 7 A Healing Relationship 133
Chapter 8 Safety 155
Chapter 9 Remembrance and Mourning 175
Chapter 10 Reconnection 196
Chapter 11 Commonality 214
Afterword The Dialectic of Trauma Continues 237
Epilogue to the 2015 Edition 248
Notes 277
Index 318
