Quotes by : Judith Lewis Herman

It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time.....

Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety.....

when traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between....

Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived....

Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a....

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience....

The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator,....

Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality....

Implicit [in the psychiatric literature] is a set of normative assumptions regarding the father's prerogatives....

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