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 ...

The pervasiveness of trauma in American society is intimately linked to the ubiquity of sexual violence in our culture, and ultimately, the politics that buttresses this reality. In the second ...

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 ...