# Trauma and Recovery

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- Book: [Trauma and Recovery](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-herman/trauma-and-recovery) ([Trauma and Recovery.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-herman/trauma-and-recovery.md))
- Authors: [Judith Herman](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-herman)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-15-4160-295-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2022-11-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The groundbreaking work on trauma " One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud."―New York Times 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.