Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of domestic violence and sexual trauma. Psychiatrist Judith Herman changed the way we view trauma. When she was studying to become a psychiatrist in the ...

The pervasiveness of trauma in American society is intimately linked to the ubiquity of sexual violence in our culture, and ultimately, the politics that buttresses this reality. In the second ...

Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., is a psychiatrist and researcher whose work has profoundly influenced the field of trauma and recovery. With a career spanning several decades, she is celebrated for her ...

Judith L. Herman, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice, published March 2023, and Trauma and ...

In “Truth and Repair,” her follow-up to 1992’s “Trauma and Recovery,” the psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that healing is more than a “private, individual matter.” By Christine Kenneally When you ...

Violence is ubiquitous in American life, and so is the trauma that follows in its wake. From the domestic sphere to the public sphere, interpersonal violence, particularly of a sexual nature, is ...

When psychiatrist Judith Herman published her book "Trauma and Recovery" in 1992, she turned the world of psychiatry on its head. Psychiatrist Judith Herman on trauma, justice for survivors and her ...

Herman, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of Trauma and Recovery:The Aftermath Of Violence—From Domestic Abuse To ...