Trauma and Healing. The Consequences of Violence from Abuse to Political Terror with a Revised Epilogue

One of the most important works on psychotherapy since Sigmund Freud. A bestseller since 1992!
Translated into 30 languages! Over 1500 reviews on Amazon!

Judith Herman — a psychiatrist from Harvard, a feminist, has spent decades helping women who have experienced sexual violence, including childhood abuse and domestic violence. The author argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on cases of child abuse, as well as extensive literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows parallels between private horrors, domestic violence, and public horrors, war.

«In this groundbreaking book, a leading psychiatrist reevaluates how we think about and treat victims of trauma. An astonishing achievement that remains a classic for our generation». — Bessel van der Kolk, author of «The Body Keeps the Score»