Pioneering Trauma expert Judith Herman has published a new book: about what trauma survivors want and what justice would be for them.
In the post-#metoo era, what would justice look like for the Victims of trauma? With rape conviction rates remaining low and the psychological toll some victims fear from the legal system, what other action would feel like justice for victims?
The crime alienates the victim not only from the person who violated her but also from all those who doubt her veracity, who blame her rather than the perpetrator, or who choose to turn a blind eye.
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice.
Judith Herman is a feminist who is best known for her work proposing Complex PTSD as a diagnosis, and the three-phase treatment model involving a stability and safety phase before addressing the trauma directly – which she developed in collaboration with Bessel van der Kolk and others – publishing her groundbreaking book Trauma and Recovery back in 1992.
Now she’s back, discussing what trauma victims need from the society that turned a blind eye to their trauma – and the flaws of “restorative-justice programs” – which often “rely on the threat of criminal punishment to secure an offender’s compliance” – as Eren Orbey of the New Yorker describes it.
Read the article A Trailblazer of Trauma Studies Asks What Victims Really Want (archive link)
- Trauma and Abuse including complex trauma
- Complex PTSD: symptoms in a graph
- Do survivors blame themselves? How can they change this?
- Complex PTSD as a diagnosis – ICD-11 by the World Health Organization
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