Conversations with History: Judith Herman

Dr. Judith Lewis Herman, professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, and a pioneer in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder and the sexual abuse of women and children, joins UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler on this edition of Conversations with History. [3/2002] [Show ID: 6233]
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[@martinaluisetti]

" You need a safe space in order to do that." Forever grateful to Judith Lewis Herman. There are no words for just how much she did for victims of abuse.

[@janielbl]

Judith's book "Trauma & Recovery" helped me to understand that I was a victim of complex post traumatic stress. This knowledge helped me heal an injured mind.

[@bluesky2086]

please can you tell me it helped you ? and can you provide me with this book

[@reg8297]

How did u heal what did u do to heal

[@wolfganga982]

What an amazing scientist, her work is groundbreaking.

[@Forkroute]

Trauma and Recovery changed my life as a human being. Thank you so much.

[@dianneedwards4757]

Psychology Professors globally refer to Judith Herman and her work on CPTSD constantly. Her work was groundbreaking.

[@sterlingwalter6225]

What is it about incest that is so terrible to discuss ? because the victims themselves don't want to talk about it, it is such a trauma. We all need to talk about regularly so as to discourage this crime from even happening. Thanks Judith for breaking the silence in'78.

[@geaca3222]

Thank you ❤

[@davisworth5114]

At 26:41, "once bitten, twice shy". "And so finally, the interesting questions really lie in values"......"they lie in areas we don't understand yet......" 54:02.....The traumatic wound is a wound to the heart and the spirit, the answer lies in the Man on the Cross. There is nothing you can ever do to make God love you more than He does right now.

[@lisaohehir1075]

This was fantastic thankyou what an amazing person

[@jetzabelanonlias475]

Gratitud!

[@MURUR1025]

This conversation occurred on September 20, 2000

[@shahilagh]

They could ask her did you have trauma experiences in your past with your family? I think questions could be balanced.

[@Be1More]

thank you

[@Be1More]

great person, and her parents sound like good, educated people

[@steefhoogendam]

Funny but I am a dutchman trying to write a story about the effects of a divorce to all parents but also to the kids and society. This doing I started to read Hermans (Trauma and recovery) a book I got on a VO in 1986. I started to read again and was surprised to find out that Judith was known as a psychiatrist and in this role also was fighting for womens liberation.

[@Ida-Adriana]

i thought it was fight/flight/fawn/freeze?! anyway, this lady is amazing, i just discovered her and it's shocking to me that C-PTSD is still not "categorised" as an entity in the DSM, more than 20 years after this lady's research. instead, paedophilia was being added to the manual as a sexual orientation. i think the priorities are upside down here. it seems to me just about everyone is suffering from C-PTSD from the oppression of the so called ruling class through the ages, the structural violence is causing people to become quite dissociated and/or sadistic to each other and ourselves. thank you so much, Dr Judith Herman. i wish i could hug you.

[@pollysshore2539]

Before you hug her you may want to watch Frontline's Documentaries Divided Memories and In Search of Satan. Judith was a well known part of the recovered memory therapy community, which notably kicked off the moral panics & amuse hysterias of the 1980s and 90s. She along with Feminist Therapist Laura Brown, Gloria Stienim and several others in the women's movement conducted, participated in and wrote about RMT/MPD/DID. Several in the women's movement/feminist therapy community also (openly) supported the worst quacks in the business. Dr. Braun, Dr. Hammond, etc. In search of Satan shows Gloria giving the key note address for Dr. Braun in the 90s. This man kept his patients (mostly women & children) on multiple meds along with experimentally high doses of heart medications, while telling them they were victims of ritual sex abuse at the hands of Satanic Cults. The documentaries will make you ill, but they do call into question the research done at this time and rightfully so.

[@pollysshore2539]

The hysterias and witch hunts for information on abusers devastated and destroyed the lives of thousands. That's not an exaggeration

[@aKYwoman1]

It was not Judith Herman who was part of this therapy it was Judith PETERSON ! And here's an article that refutes what you say : ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/the-search-for-satan-fourteen-years-later/

[@bl7817]

You sound like a hysterical enabler.

[@blackinhays]

Hey,,if anyone can help me. There was this handbook/pamphlet i read . I cant remember the name or the author but it was written by a female doctor. it talked about ptsd. And one of the things it talked about was " The Game". It discribed it so clearly about how the female plays a sort of game not realizing herself why she is acting out on basicly survival instincts? I just cant remember it. If anyone can point me in the right direction i would really appreciate it

[@JackLee7223]

Me, too!

[@bluesky2086]

i rely on Herman's theory to do my researchpaper and i want to aplly it on Morrison's latest novel " God help the child " if anyone has more information about this genius theorist and PTSD are welcome

[@merveilleusefille5270]

Please could u help me ??

[@steefhoogendam]

I do have critics to the womens lib (the way it developped) and I feel more to a phased model, but I also was surprised that as a matter of fact Drs. Hermans was so clever knowing everything and approaching a ptss in the way she did. I am looking to email her. Does anybody know how she can be reached?

[@phamth]

SOWK 647

[@martinaluisetti]

" You need a safe space in order to do that." Forever grateful to Judith Lewis Herman. There are no words for just how much she did for victims of abuse.