Judith Lewis Herman Quotes

Judith Lewis Herman is an American psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author who has focused on the understanding and treatment of incest and traumatic stress.

Herman is Professor of clinical psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School and Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the Women's Mental Health Collective.

She was the recipient of the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the 2000 Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women's Association. In 2003 she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Wikipedia

✵ 31. March 1942

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Famous Judith Lewis Herman Quotes

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”

Judith Lewis Herman

Source: 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. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.”

Judith Lewis Herman

Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”

Judith Lewis Herman

Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“… in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.”

Judith Lewis Herman

“Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.”

Judith Lewis Herman

Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.”

Judith Lewis Herman

Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

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