Trauma and Recovery: From Domestic Violence to Political Terror - Softcover

Lewis Herman, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0044408862 ISBN 13: 9780044408864

Publisher: Pandora, 1996

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?

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From the Back Cover:

‘One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.’
PHYLLIS CHESLER, 'The New York Times Book Review'

This classic text reveals the systematic ‘degrading’ of the trauma suffered by women who are victims of rape, incest and domestic violence, as compared to the ‘heroic’ trauma of male war veterans. According to the author. ‘The implications of this insight are horrifying; the subordinate condition of women is maintained and enforced by the hidden violence of men. There is war between the sexes. Rape victims, battered women, and sexually abused children are its causalities. Hysteria is the combat neurosis of the sex war.’

Herman, psychiatrist and award-winning author, calls on 20 years of research and clinical work in this landmark study. She repeatedly challenges orthodoxies as she calls for a new diagnostic category for those suffering from ‘hidden’ traumas, and proposes revolutionary treatment which focuses on re-establishing the capacity for intimate relationships rather than the rehearsing of past trauma. Required reading for anyone who cares about the relationship between the sexes.

Synopsis:

This is a book about restoring connections: between the public and private worlds, between the individual and community, between men and women. In this study of trauma, the author makes the revolutionary link between the "heroic" suffering of men in war and political struggle and the degraded suffering of women who are victims of rape, incest, and domestic violence. Herman repeatedly challenges established orthodoxies, identifies a new diagnostic category for those suffering from "hidden" traumas and proposes a ground-breaking recovery programme which favours a process of reintegration to one of catharsis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pandora
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0044408862
• ISBN 13: 9780044408864
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288