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Here's a place where you can review books, educational dvds and documentaries that relate to ACE concepts or trauma-informed practices. "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." ~ Nelson Mandela

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, by Judith Herman, M.D.

 

Many of you read this groundbreaking book on understanding and treating trauma when it first came out in 1997. This is where author Judith Herman first proposed the concept of complex post-traumatic stress disorder to describe prolonged, repeated trauma. Notably, this 2015 edition has an epilogue by the author in which she discusses ACEs science. Just when I thought this classic couldn't get any better!

 

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A revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking work that changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims.

"A stunning achievement ... a classic for our generation." --Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score
 
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, it has become the basic text for understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as on 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. A new epilogue reviews what has changed--and what has not changed--over two decades. Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.
 

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This is an excellent work! I used many of the concepts in developing my 3-phase/12 stage model for trauma recovery, Strategic Trauma and Abuse RecoveryÂĐ. I recommend it in all of my workshops and cite her in my book, Break EVERY Stinking Chain! Healing for Hidden Wounds. Thanks for posting this. I didn't know there is an updated version!

Thank you SO very much for sharing this release!  This book changed my life and has become my teaching and healing bible!  Lost count of how many times I've read it.  Also what's so profound about this book is the way that Dr. Herman compares the experiences of prolonged child abuse survivors with that of  prisoners of war and how they're similar because both are held captive with no means of escape!  So grateful to Dr. Herman and can't wait to read again this work along with the epilogue.  Again, thank you!

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