Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman Can We Be Strangers Again? the letter unearths a family’s

the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known

a sliver of a barrier island not far off the North Florida coast

he couldn’t find true love

-Health and property insurance

and the resurgence of populism today

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman Can We Be Strangers Again? the letter unearths a family’sTrauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like