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 ...

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 ...

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 Political Terrorand Truth and Repair: How ...