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Podcast: Transforming Trauma
Episode: Listening to What Survivors Need to Address Sexual Trauma and Complex PTSD with Dr. Judith Herman
Description: On this episode of Transforming Trauma, Emily Ruth is honored to welcome psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author Dr. Judith Herman for a heartfelt discussion centering on the needs of victims of sexual trauma and society's role in individual and collective trauma healing. In her latest book, Truth And Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice, Dr. Herman introduces us to a "fourth stage" of the recovery process in which trauma survivors are invited to envision their future. Dr. Herman's latest book comes 30 years after her seminal work, Trauma And Recovery, in which she introduced the then-radical idea that...