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Trauma and Recovery.

Judith Herman.

Basic Books. 1992.

ISBN: 9780465087303.

Trauma and Recovery is a landmark work in trauma studies that reframed psychological trauma as inseparable from its social and political context, and it introduced a three-stage model of recovery that has become foundational in clinical practice. Herman’s central claim is that studying psychological trauma is an inherently political enterprise because it calls attention to oppressed and powerless people in society.She places individual traumatic experience within a broader political frame, arguing that private horrors (such as child abuse or domestic violence) share surprising parallels with public horrors (such as war and political terror).The book is written from a feminist perspective and deliberately challenges diagnostic concepts that had tended to isolate trauma symptoms from their relational and societal causes.

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