I'll go through the book's sections below - hopefully briefly. The book is not only a history of the study of trauma and recovery, as the title suggests, it also deals with many topics that few have written about in quite the same way. The genius of Herman's book is that it operates on so many levels. I'm not sure how I had overlooked it before, but I think it was because I wasn't ready to read something theoretical yet. I first picked up Trauma and Recovery several years after I'd been diagnosed with PTSD. A woman who calls herself SwedishJewfish has written a lengthy review of Trauma and Recovery on The Daily Kos, describing it as a "life-changing" book.
Judith Lewis Herman's book, Trauma and Recovery, is a landmark book. Distressed woman (photo: Alex Thompson, flickr creative commons)
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