Quotes by Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

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The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of ps — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are t — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Se — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questio — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Admitting the need for help may also compound the survivor's sense of defeat. The therapists Inger Agger and Soren Jense — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task o — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
The traumatic moment becomes encoded in an abnormal form of memory, which breaks spontaneously into consciouness, both a — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
First, the physiological symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder have been brought within manageable limits. Second, — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psycholog — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
...some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any psychiatric diagnos — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
While in principle groups for survivors are a good idea, in practice it soon becomes apparent that to organize a success — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. In her renewed connecti — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnes — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
when traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetra — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced. — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and there — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter ho — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror