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 ...

In “Truth and Repair,” her follow-up to 1992’s “Trauma and Recovery,” the psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that healing is more than a “private, individual matter.” By Christine Kenneally When you ...

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 ...

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 ...