This work contrasts the "heroic" suffering of men and the "degraded" suffering of women, using this in discussion of trauma and recovery of survivors. This updated work concludes by focusing on the new research to emerge in this field of psychology and its implications for this text.
This work contrasts the "heroic" suffering of men and the "degraded" suffering of women, using this in discussion of trauma and recovery of survivors. This updated work concludes by focusing on the new research to emerge in this field of psychology and its implications for this text.
With a new afterword, Judith Lewis Herman describes the controversy ignited by her work, the new research to emerge in this field of psychology and the far-reaching implications of this text on trauma situations worldwide.
'One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.' New York Times; 'The very best book on the relationship between sexual abuse and political power.' Susie Orbach, Guardian; 'Cogently argued and well illustrated with relevant case material...it sets abuse of whatever kind in its wider social context. This book will be of benefit to all, either practitioners or supervisors, who grapple with the implications of work with survivors.' Sue Clement-Jewery, Relate
Judith Lewis Herman is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital, Massachusetts.
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