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Trauma and Recovery

By: Judith Lewis Herman MD
Narrated by: Alison Mathews, Xe Sands
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Summary

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)

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.

©2015 Judith L. Herman (P)2019 Basic Books
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"One of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud."—New York Times

"A landmark."—Gloria Steinem
"A stunning achievement ... a classic for our generation."—Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score

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robotic voice.

why the very robotic narration? sounds like a computerised voice? very off putting. monotone

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Great book about ptsd

The book inspired me to learn more about ptsd and it's treatment. It helped my patients with PTSD symptoms aswel.

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Excellent book

An excellent book but you have to be ready for it . Needs to be listened to several times

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This should have been the first book I read.

Let’s face it, there’s nothing new about this seminal book. But I have to say, after 20 years of clinical work, I felt like I was reading the subject for the first time. Deeply informative and easy to access.

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Great book. Monotone reader.

Outside of extraordinary circumstances, in order to experience dissociation, men need only go to war; for a woman, it is part and parcel of life with men. Herman's thorough description of the effects of male aggression, graciously corrects this customary oversight. The reader is a tad robotic - mildly better than the Macat books. A minor annoyance was her pronunciation of 'dissociation' - a common error - when Herman clearly uses the correct term.

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Very impressed!

This book is very enlightening for abused people or therapists interested on this subject.. it answered a lot of questions I didn’t even know I had.

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Life changing and life affirming.

Through listening to this book I have learned so much about who I am and the troubles I have had. It has had a profound and positive effect on me.
There are difficult passages to listen to, whether they trigger grief for all that has been lost to the individual, or horror in the stories of other trauma survivors.
But it is worth pushing through to face the revelations that can heal. I would recommend this for anyone who is lost and adrift and looking for answers, or for anyone dealing with the clinical psychological treatment of people. I would recommend that everyone should read it really, but I know that it is hard for people who have not been subject to traumatic experiences to face that which can be hidden in the world around them.
Thank you to Judith Herman for speaking clearly for those who have often been marginalised, ostracised and disbelieved.
Also, for showing commonality across different traumas such as domestic abuse survivors, sexual abuse survivors, traumatised war veterans and survivors of the holocaust. It is only by seeing things as a whole that we can begin to address all forms of deep generational trauma suffered globally.

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Wonderful and Important for therapists and petient

i learned so much, thank you for this research and publishing it. if you suffer from CPTST - read it, it will help you coop

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A must read

A powerful book to support trauma recovery. As a PTSD sufferer this really helped me understand some of my symptoms, debunked the myth of what « recovery » and empowered me to be in charge of it.

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Excellent book for understanding trauma

This book by Judith Herman provides a comprehensive discussion about trauma and how to work with it.

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