TRAUMA AND RECOVERY
Judith Lewis Herman
Basic Books, 1997
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers of this book will learn a broad spectrum of human adaptation to traumatic events; their relation under a new diagnostic name for the psychological disorder found in survivors of prolonged, repeated abuse; and the fundamental stages of recovery.
This book is a classic in understanding post-traumatic stress disorder. The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Victims of rape, domestic abuse, childhood physical and sexual abuse, war, political terror, and concentration camps alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The alterations of consciousness this gives rise to were called 'doublethink,' by George Orwell and are called 'dissociation,' by mental health professionals. This book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand and treat victims of trauma.
Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital.
8 CE credits; 236 pages
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