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Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword, Herman offers a lucid and thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published. Reviewing the extensive research literature that demonstrates the validity of incest survivors' sometimes repressed and recovered memories, she convincingly challenges the rhetoric and methods of the backlash movement against incest survivors, and the concerted attempt to deny the events they find the courage to describe.

From domestic abuse to political terror, new edition, with a new afterward by the author.

From one of America's most influential psychiatrists, an "extraordinary" and "profound" (New York Times) manifesto for reimagining justice for survivors of sexual trauma The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of those trials for the survivors of their abuse. The conventional retributive process fails to serve most survivors; it was never designed for them. Renowned trauma expert Judith L. Herman argues that the first step toward a better form of justice is simply to ask survivors what would make things as right as possible for them. In Truth and Repair, she commits the radical act of listening to survivors. Recounting their stories, she offers an alternative vision of justice as healing for survivors and their communities. Deeply researched and compassionately told, Truth and Repair envisions a new path to justice for all.

From one of America's most influential psychiatrists, a powerful manifesto for reimagining justice, based on the testimony of trauma survivors The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of those trials for the survivors of their abuse. The conventional retributive process fails to serve most survivors; it was never designed for them. Renowned trauma expert Judith L. Herman argues that the first step toward a better form of justice is simply to ask survivors what would make things as right as possible for them. In Truth and Repair, she commits the radical act of listening to survivors. Recounting their stories, she offers an alternative vision of justice as healing for survivors and their communities. Deeply researched and compassionately told, Truth and Repair envisions a new path to justice for all.

Den amerikanske psykiater og feminist Judith L. Herman leverer med denne bog et velskrevet, lidenskabeligt og gennemdokumenteret bidrag til litteraturen om traumer og deres betydning for udviklingen af psykopatologi. Bogen er et vægtigt bidrag til den aktuelle psykiatriske diskussion og et tankevækkende indlæg i den offentlige debat. Den almindelige reaktion på grusomme oplevelser er at lukke dem ude fra bevidstheden. Men grusomheder kan ikke bare manes i jorden. At huske, erkende og fortælle sandheden om de forfærdelige begivenheder, man har gennemlevet, er nødvendige forudsætninger for at hele sårene. Når dette ikke sker, når fortrængningerne opretholdes, er der stor sandsynlighed for, at den traumatiske hændelse før eller senere kommer op til overfladen i form af f.eks. tilbagevendende mareridt eller psykosomatiske reaktioner. Gennem eksempler fra litteraturen, case-materiale og samtaler med klienter fra sin egen praksis peger Judith L. Herman på ligheder mellem reaktionerne på meget forskellige traumatiserende oplevelser (f.eks. seksuelle overgreb mod børn, mishandling af kvinder, katastrofer, krigshandlinger, tortur). Hun analyserer problemerne omkring diagnosticering, beskriver mulighederne for behandling og redegør indgående for de forskellige faser i helingsprocessen. Bogen udkom 1. gang på dansk i 1995 og genudgives nu i Hans Reitzels Forlags Klassiker-serie. I denne nye udgave er der tilføjet et efterskrift samt et opdateret register.

Judith Lewis Herman förenar sitt arbete som psykiater och forskare med ett starkt socialt och politiskt engagemang. Hon har blivit känd som feministisk forskare och hennes forskning har spelat stor roll för attvisa på konsekvenserna av det våld som utövas av män mot kvinnor och barn. Trots att det nu gått 15 år sedan boken först publicerades i USA är den fortfarande aktuell. Boken beskriver traumat i ett existentiellt och medicinskt-psykologiskt perspektiv. Herman pekar på likheterna i de psykiska följdtillstånden efter våld i hemmet och efter organiserat våld och tortyr. Författaren understryker att målet för all behandling är att patienten ska kunna hitta vägen tillbaka till samhället för att kunna återupprätta tilliten till människan. Boken lämpar sig väl som lärobok på utbildningar som handlar om trauma orsakade av mänskliga ogärningar och grymheter. Judith Lewis Herman är klinisk professor i psykiatri vid Harvard Medical School och utbildningsdirektor vid the Victims of Violence Program vid Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge,Massachusetts.