u003cpu003eu003cbu003eThe groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a "classic for our generation" (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of u003ciu003eThe Body Keeps the Scoreu003c/iu003e)u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003ciu003eTrauma and Recoveryu003c/iu003e 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Hailed by the u003ciu003eNew York Timesu003c/iu003e 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.u003c/pu003e
