# Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman (Paperback)

**The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a "classic for our generation" (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of _The Body Keeps the Score_)**

_Trauma and Recovery_ is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war.

This edition includes a new epilogue by the author assessing what has--and hasn't--changed in understanding and treating trauma over the last three decades.

Hailed by the _New York Times_ as "one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud," Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we heal.

## Details

- **Price:** 17.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Basic Books
- **Type:** Self Help
- **Tags:** All Books, Self Help

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