What is Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder

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Recommendation: Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman, M.D.
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  Address: Basic Books, 1992
  City: New York, NY
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This is a high-level book on the recovery from various types of trauma. It is written at the level of professionals or for people wanting to read in-depth about trauma in general and healing from it.

PART I covers Traumatic Disorders: A Forgotten History, Terror, Disconnection, Captivity, Child Abuse, and A New Diagnosis.

PART II covers the Stages of Recovery: A Healing Relationship, Safety, Remembrance and Mourning, Reconnection, and Commonality.

There is an Afterword: "The Dialectic of Trauma Continues". There are extensive notes and a complete index.
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