Trauma and healing. The consequences of violence from Abuez to political terror. German D.

Judith German - a psychiatrist from Harvard, Theminist, a feminist, for several decades helped women who survived sexual violence, including violence in childhood and domestic violence. The author claims that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Based on their own study of cases of violence against children, as well as extensive literature on war veterans and victims of political terror, it shows parallels between private horrors, domestic violence and public horrors, war.

"In this innovative book The leading psychiatrist revises how we think about victims of injury and treat them. An amazing achievement that remains a classic for our generation. ” - Besse Van der Kolk, author of the book “The Body remembers everything”