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Judith Herman

American psychiatrist · United States · On the map · Doctors · Born 1942 · age 84

Judith Lewis Herman is an American psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author who has focused on the understanding and treatment of incest and traumatic stress.

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2015“Safety always begins with the body. If a person does not feel safe in her body, she does not feel safe anywhere. (from the 2015 Afterword: "The Dialectic of Trauma Continues")”In their wordsTrauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (1992)Read the whole statement

1992“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness.”In their wordsbeginning of IntroductionRead the whole statement

“The fundamental stages of recovery are establishing safety, reconstructing the trauma story, and restoring the connection between survivors and their community (Introduction)”In their wordsTrauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (1992)Read the whole statement

“Without the context of a political movement, it has never been possible to advance the study of psychological trauma.”In their wordsTrauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (1992)Read the whole statement

“Fifty years ago, Virginia Woolf wrote that "the public and private worlds are inseparably connected...”In their wordsTrauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (1992)Read the whole statement

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force.”In their wordsTrauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (1992)Read the whole statement

1942Born31 March 1942

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an understanding of psychological trauma begins with rediscovering history. (Introduction)
1992 · Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (1992), Own words
To hold traumatic reality in consciousness requires a social context that affirms and protects the victim and that joins the victim and witness in a common alliance.
1992 · Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (1992), Own words
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting.
1992 · Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (1992), Own words