Judith Lewis Herman

“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he…

— Judith Lewis Herman

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“In the absence of strong political movements for human rights, the active process of bearing witness inevitably gives way to the active…

— Judith Lewis Herman

In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Further evidence for the pathogenic role of dissociation has come from a largescale clinical and community study of traumatized people conducted by…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The…

— Judith Lewis Herman