--- product_id: 246148 title: "Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror" price: "171.59 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/246148-trauma-and-recovery-the-aftermath-of-violence-from-domestic-abuse store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Groundbreaking trauma research Meticulously documented case studies Integrates psychological & social trauma Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror **Price:** 171.59 DT **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“– Unlock the power of healing through history, science, and society. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - **How much does it cost?** 171.59 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/246148-trauma-and-recovery-the-aftermath-of-violence-from-domestic-abuse) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Social Context Emphasis:** Explores trauma within societal attitudes, fostering empathy and collective healing. - β€’ **Authoritative & Accessible:** Combines rigorous research with compelling survivor narratives for impactful learning. - β€’ **Holistic Healing Framework:** Connects private and political trauma for a comprehensive recovery approach. - β€’ **Three-Stage Recovery Model:** Guides readers through safety, remembrance, and social reintegration phases. - β€’ **Trailblazing Trauma Insight:** Revolutionized trauma understanding since 1992, shaping clinical & cultural perspectives. ## Overview Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman is a seminal work that reshaped how trauma is understood and treated by linking individual experiences of abuse and terror to broader social and political contexts. Featuring a three-stage recovery model and enriched with survivor voices and historical analysis, this book is a must-read for professionals and anyone seeking a profound understanding of trauma’s aftermath. ## Description When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman's volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surrounding the topic have shifted within the clinical community and the culture at large. Trauma and Recovery brings a new level of understanding to a set of problems usually considered individually. Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. Meticulously documented and frequently using the victims' own words as well as those from classic literary works and prison diaries, Trauma and Recovery is a powerful work that will continue to profoundly impact our thinking. Review: If you are here, got ahead and hit purchase! - A phenomenal must read! I love the scientific, historical addition to this book! As a first responder family member with PTSD, it is wonderful to understand multiple components. The book is an easy read, hard to put down. Review: THE book to understanding trauma and depression - I have suffered from severe, debilitating depression for several years as a result of a trauma that is actually completely unrelated to what this book focuses on. Despite not having suffered trauma due to a rape, war or kidnapping, I found this book to be life-changing. I looked and searched endlessly for in-depth information to explain why I feel the way I do, and until this book, there was absolutely nothing out there. I came across countless webpages, medical literature, books, shows, blogs, essays, research papers, medical sites, and none explained WHY. A great deal of them focused on symptoms, but only general symptoms that could apply to a great deal of things. Besides, I already knew what my symptoms were. Another significant portion were dedicated to veterans and PTSD. I would read them, but again, they would still only discuss things on a very superficial basis. Blogs would talk about what medications people took, and arguments would ensue about who had the worse story. Medical literature would delve into explanations of which receptor and which brain lobe shrunk or expanded, and shock rates of rats. Why was there no simple explanation for why people feel these symptoms when suffering from trauma? I even asked my psychiatrist that I see twice a week -I would beg him to explain to me in detail what I had, why I had this, when I would get better, and why I experienced these awful symptoms. He would always respond the same way.... that I had "complicated depression," "complicated grief," and that I had "experienced a severe trauma." Any symptom I specifically asked about, was just a "symptom common in trauma." Was there just NO explanation? Based on my past experience with being let down, I had little faith this book would be able to explain what I have been going through for several years now, ESPECIALLY because it focuses on trauma related to rape, war, kidnapping. "Trauma and Recovery," however, explains trauma in a way that relates to EVERYONE and explains it in GREAT DETAIL. The detail and depth was beyond any hope I had or anything I could have imagined. It brought up points that I did not even consider, and thoughts that made me learn a great deal about my affliction. In fact, this book brought to light answers and closure for issues that I had tried to address with my $300/hr psychiatrist for the past 3 years. I thought to myself, "wtf?! what took my doctor so long and why has he been torturing me about this???!" Yes - this book WILL drum up emotions, and it did cost me plenty of tears and opening of wounds that were supposedly healed over, however, I definitely needed to understand the answers to these questions in order to move on. This is an ideal book to have your family, spouse, significant other, or other supportive individual read. A great struggle for me, and one that has brought me much pain, is feeling as though I constantly have to explain myself and my actions/affliction to my family. They are actually the most supportive people anyone could ever hope for, yet they STILL can't understand what it is that I am going through or why I do the things I do. It is an awful feeling. I begged them to read this book, they didn't unfortunately, but I truly believe that if you love someone who is going through PTSD, depression/trauma/grief, you would show amazing support in reading this to help them. In terms of what I have, and how this helped me.... I have experienced ups/downs, cycles of feeling great, then feeling terrible, not being able to get out of bed or my home for days even weeks, withdrawing socially, unable to work for several years, feeling unbelievably overwhelmed by the littlest of things, losing track of time, barely able to keep up with anything, uninterested in anything, no form of romantic relationships whatsoever, flashbacks to the event(s), extreme fatigue, uncontrollable sobbing, anxiety, hopelessness, chest pain, accelerated aging, feeling like something in me has permanently changed and I'm not "me", indifference, guilt. This is the foremost work in bringing to light the underlying cause(s) for these symptoms and why/how trauma affects us differently that just plain depression. If you need this book, I send you my prayers and wish you the best in your or your loved one's recovery. ## Features - A Forgotten History. Safety - Terror, Captivity, Child Abuse, A new diagnosis - Disconnection - Remembrance and Mourning - Reconnection, Commonality ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #262,342 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Abuse Self-Help #10 in Post-Traumatic Stress #19 in Medical Psychology Pathologies | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 3,025 Reviews | ## Images ![Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91+IFhb+l6L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you are here, got ahead and hit purchase! *by B***Y on July 18, 2026* A phenomenal must read! I love the scientific, historical addition to this book! As a first responder family member with PTSD, it is wonderful to understand multiple components. The book is an easy read, hard to put down. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE book to understanding trauma and depression *by I***H on July 5, 2013* I have suffered from severe, debilitating depression for several years as a result of a trauma that is actually completely unrelated to what this book focuses on. Despite not having suffered trauma due to a rape, war or kidnapping, I found this book to be life-changing. I looked and searched endlessly for in-depth information to explain why I feel the way I do, and until this book, there was absolutely nothing out there. I came across countless webpages, medical literature, books, shows, blogs, essays, research papers, medical sites, and none explained WHY. A great deal of them focused on symptoms, but only general symptoms that could apply to a great deal of things. Besides, I already knew what my symptoms were. Another significant portion were dedicated to veterans and PTSD. I would read them, but again, they would still only discuss things on a very superficial basis. Blogs would talk about what medications people took, and arguments would ensue about who had the worse story. Medical literature would delve into explanations of which receptor and which brain lobe shrunk or expanded, and shock rates of rats. Why was there no simple explanation for why people feel these symptoms when suffering from trauma? I even asked my psychiatrist that I see twice a week -I would beg him to explain to me in detail what I had, why I had this, when I would get better, and why I experienced these awful symptoms. He would always respond the same way.... that I had "complicated depression," "complicated grief," and that I had "experienced a severe trauma." Any symptom I specifically asked about, was just a "symptom common in trauma." Was there just NO explanation? Based on my past experience with being let down, I had little faith this book would be able to explain what I have been going through for several years now, ESPECIALLY because it focuses on trauma related to rape, war, kidnapping. "Trauma and Recovery," however, explains trauma in a way that relates to EVERYONE and explains it in GREAT DETAIL. The detail and depth was beyond any hope I had or anything I could have imagined. It brought up points that I did not even consider, and thoughts that made me learn a great deal about my affliction. In fact, this book brought to light answers and closure for issues that I had tried to address with my $300/hr psychiatrist for the past 3 years. I thought to myself, "wtf?! what took my doctor so long and why has he been torturing me about this???!" Yes - this book WILL drum up emotions, and it did cost me plenty of tears and opening of wounds that were supposedly healed over, however, I definitely needed to understand the answers to these questions in order to move on. This is an ideal book to have your family, spouse, significant other, or other supportive individual read. A great struggle for me, and one that has brought me much pain, is feeling as though I constantly have to explain myself and my actions/affliction to my family. They are actually the most supportive people anyone could ever hope for, yet they STILL can't understand what it is that I am going through or why I do the things I do. It is an awful feeling. I begged them to read this book, they didn't unfortunately, but I truly believe that if you love someone who is going through PTSD, depression/trauma/grief, you would show amazing support in reading this to help them. In terms of what I have, and how this helped me.... I have experienced ups/downs, cycles of feeling great, then feeling terrible, not being able to get out of bed or my home for days even weeks, withdrawing socially, unable to work for several years, feeling unbelievably overwhelmed by the littlest of things, losing track of time, barely able to keep up with anything, uninterested in anything, no form of romantic relationships whatsoever, flashbacks to the event(s), extreme fatigue, uncontrollable sobbing, anxiety, hopelessness, chest pain, accelerated aging, feeling like something in me has permanently changed and I'm not "me", indifference, guilt. This is the foremost work in bringing to light the underlying cause(s) for these symptoms and why/how trauma affects us differently that just plain depression. If you need this book, I send you my prayers and wish you the best in your or your loved one's recovery. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome *by M***W on July 14, 2026* Great book --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/246148-trauma-and-recovery-the-aftermath-of-violence-from-domestic-abuse](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/246148-trauma-and-recovery-the-aftermath-of-violence-from-domestic-abuse) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-09-20*