Coming in early 2023, the South African Launch of new book by Judith Herman:

Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

I am excited to share this photo with Judith Herman, pioneering scholar in trauma research and treatment, Harvard University Medical School clinical psychiatry professor, and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. I was privileged to be able to visit her recently in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she lives in a supportive retirement community. Dr. Herman will launch her new book at our Centre early next year—watch this space!

Her book Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence-from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror is critical reading for thousands of scholars, researchers and students globally who use it as a “bible” for understanding trauma and its impact on victims. She coined the term “When I served on the TRC, everybody on the committee I chaired for victims’ hearings had to read this book. First published in 1992, and now available in 20 languages, the book is in its third edition, which was released in 2015.

In her new book on justice for victims, Dr. Herman follows her approach of extensive interviews with victims of domestic and sexual violence and addresses the question of what victims need to regain a sense of restoration, and whether the harms they have suffered can be repaired. We can’t wait to hear and read about her pioneering insights that gave us language to understand the trauma of sexual and domestic abuse more than three decades before #metoo became a global movement.