Judith Lewis Herman

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Judith Lewis Herman (born 1942) is an American psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author who has focused on the understanding and treatment of incest and traumatic stress.

Herman is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the Women's Mental Health Collective.

She was the recipient of the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the 2000 Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women's Association. In 2003, she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Early life

Herman was born in New York City to Helen Block Lewis, who was a psychologist and psychoanalyst and taught at Yale, and Naphtali Lewis, who worked as a professor of classics at City University of New York.{{Cite web|title=Judith Herman|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/herman-judith|access-date=February 10, 2022|website=Jewish Women's Archive}} She received her education at Radcliffe College and Harvard Medical School.{{Cite web|title=Judith Herman|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/herman-judith|access-date=February 10, 2022 |website=Jewish Women's Archive}}

Career

Herman's work focuses on the understanding of trauma and its victims, as set out in her second book, Trauma and Recovery.John Marzillier. To Hell and Back. 2012, p. 302. There she distinguishes between single-incident traumas – one-off events – which she termed Type I traumas, and complex or repeated traumas (Type II).Marzillier. To Hell and Back. 2012, pp. 2,12. Type I trauma, according to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, "accurately describes the symptoms that result when a person experiences a short-lived psychological trauma".{{cite web |last1=Whealin,Ph.D. |first1=Julia M. |last2=Slone,Ph.D. |first2=Laurie |title=National Center for PTSD Fact Sheet: Complex PTSD |publisher=National Center for PTSD, United States Department of Veterans Affairs |date=May 22, 2007 |url=http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/ncdocs/fact_shts/fs_complex_ptsd.html |access-date=March 15, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216011356/http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/ncdocs/fact_shts/fs_complex_ptsd.html |archive-date=February 16, 2008 }} Type II – the concept of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) – includes "the syndrome that follows upon prolonged, repeated trauma".{{citation | last = Herman | first = Judith Lewis | contribution = A new diagnosis | editor-last = Herman | editor-first = Judith Lewis | title = Trauma and recovery: the aftermath of violence - from domestic abuse to political terror | page = [https://archive.org/details/traumarecovery00herm_0/page/119 119] | publisher = BasicBooks | location = New York | year = 1997 | orig-year = 1992 |isbn=978-0-465-08730-3 | postscript = . | url = https://archive.org/details/traumarecovery00herm_0/page/119 }} Although not yet accepted by DSM-IV as a separate diagnostic category, the notion of complex traumas has been found useful in clinical practice,John Marzillier, To Hell and Back (2012) p. 304. although the 11th revision of ICD (ICD-11), released in 2018, included that diagnosis for the first time.{{Cite journal|doi = 10.1192/bjp.2020.43|title = ICD-11 complex post-traumatic stress disorder: Simplifying diagnosis in trauma populations|year = 2020|last1 = Cloitre|first1 = Marylène|journal = The British Journal of Psychiatry|volume = 216|issue = 3|pages = 129–131|pmid = 32345416|s2cid = 213910628|doi-access = free}}

Herman also set out a three-stage sequence of trauma treatment and recovery. The first and most important involved the establishment of safety, which might be especially difficult for those in abusive relationships.J. L. Herman, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1440-1819.1998.0520s5S145.x The second phase involved active work upon the trauma, fostered by that secure base, and employing any of a range of psychological techniques.John Marzillier. To Hell and Back. 2012, p. 182. The final stage was represented by an advance to a new post-traumatic life,D. Goleman. Emotional Intelligence. 1996, p. 213. possibly broadened by the experience of surviving the trauma and all it involved.John Marzillier. To Hell and Back. 2012, p. 256.

Herman is studying the effects of the justice system on victims of sexual violence to discover a better way for victims of crimes to interact with what she perceives as an 'adversarial' system of crime and punishment in the U.S.{{cite web | title = Center for the Humanities-War: 2009/2010 | url = http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/wesleyan.edu-dz.6850657988.06850657990 | website = deimos3.apple.com | access-date = 2014-02-23 | archive-date = 2016-03-04 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062810/http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/wesleyan.edu-dz.6850657988.06850657990 | url-status = dead }}

Works

= Books =

{{cite book | last = Herman | first = Judith Lewis | title = Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror | publisher = BasicBooks | location = New York | year = 1997 | orig-year = 1992 |isbn=978-0-465-08730-3 | url = https://archive.org/details/traumarecovery00herm_0 }}
{{cite book | last = Herman | first = Judith Lewis | title = Father-daughter Incest | publisher = Harvard University Press | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 2000 | orig-year = 1981 |isbn=978-0-674-07651-8 | url = https://archive.org/details/fatherdaughterin00judi }}
Herman, Judith Lewis. (2023) Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice. London: Basic Books.{{ISBN|978-1-5416-0054-6}} {{Cite news |last=Kenneally |first=Christine |date=March 14, 2023 |title=What Should Justice Look Like for Trauma Survivors? Ask Them. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/books/review/judith-herman-truth-repair.html |access-date=June 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}

= Selected book chapters =

{{citation | last = Herman | first = Judith Lewis | contribution = Introduction: Hidden in Plain Sight: Clinical Observations on Prostitution | editor-last = Farley | editor-first = Melissa | editor-link = Melissa Farley | title = Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress | pages = 1–16 | publisher = Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press | location = Binghamton, New York | year = 2003 |isbn=978-1-136-76490-5 | postscript =.}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210940/http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781136764905_sample_820022.pdf Sample pdf.]

= Selected articles =

Harvey, Mary, and Herman, Judith Lewis (September 1994). "[https://www.jimhopper.com/pdf/harvey_herman_1994.pdf Amnesia, Partial Amnesia, and Delayed Recall among Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma]". Consciousness and Cognition 3 (3-4): 295–206.
{{cite journal |last = Herman | first = Judith Lewis | title = The Mental Health of Crime Victims: Impact of Legal Intervention | journal = Journal of Traumatic Stress | volume = 16 | issue = 2 | pages = 159–166 | doi = 10.1023/A:1022847223135 | pmid = 12699203 | date = April 2003 | s2cid = 12123376 }}
{{cite journal |last = Herman | first = Judith Lewis | title = Introduction: Hidden in Plain Sight: Clinical Observations on Prostitution | journal = Journal of Trauma Practice | volume = 2 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 1–13 | doi = 10.1300/J189v02n03_01 | date = January 2004 | s2cid = 216134309 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210940/http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781136764905_sample_820022.pdf Sample pdf.]
{{cite journal |last = Herman | first = Judith Lewis | title = Justice from the Victim's Perspective | journal = Violence Against Women | volume = 11 | issue = 5 | pages = 571–602 | doi = 10.1177/1077801205274450 | pmid = 16043563 | date = May 2005 | s2cid = 42891871 | url = http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:34961943 }}
{{cite journal | last1 = Herman | first1 = Judith Lewis | last2 = Dutra | first2 = Lissa | last3 = Callahan | first3 = Kelley | last4 = Forman | first4 = Evan | last5 = Mendelsohn | first5 = Michaela | title = Core Schemas and Suicidality in a Chronically Traumatized Population | journal = Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | volume = 196 | issue = 1 | pages = 71–74 | pmid = 18195645 | doi = 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31815fa4c1 | date = January 2008 | s2cid = 11900567 }}

References

External links

[http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/wesleyan.edu-dz.6850657988.06850657990 "Justice from the Victim's Perspective"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062810/http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/wesleyan.edu-dz.6850657988.06850657990 |date=2016-03-04 }} - Lecture given at Wesleyan University, May 10, 2010
"[https://iis.berkeley.edu/publications/judith-herman-psychological-insight-and-political-understanding-case-trauma-and Conversations with History: The Case of Trauma and Recovery Psychological Insight and Political Understanding with Judith Herman]" - Interview with Harry Kreisler, 2010
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqjXlP76AHc Interview with Julia Feder]

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