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The Trauma Therapist

Episode 711: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice with Judith Herman

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

Alternative Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.5580 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

To say that I’m excited and honored to have Dr. Judith L. Herman join me on the podcast is an understatement.

Judith is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. 'Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror,' Judith’s second book, is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors.

The conventional retributive process fails to serve most survivors; it was never designed for them. Judith argues that the first step toward a better form of justice is simply to ask survivors what would make things as right as possible for them. In her new book, 'Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice,' she commits the radical act of listening to survivors. Recounting their stories, she offers an alternative vision of justice as healing for survivors and their communities.

Deeply researched and compassionately told, Truth and Repair envisions a new path to justice for all.

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1:20.1

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1:26.1

Music com.

1:37.3

Welcome back to the Trauma Therapist podcast. My name is Guy McPherson.

1:39.3

My mission is to help trauma therapist be their incredible selves, to be human, to be real, not just a clinician.

1:47.1

I'm a big believer in who we are is more important than what we know.

1:50.8

And this requires cultivating authenticity, genuineness, and vulnerability.

1:55.3

And that requires intention.

1:57.3

You can learn more about my courses and workshops by going to the Traumathotherapist project.com.

2:02.6

That's the Traumathotherapist project.com.

2:05.6

Let's get started.

2:06.6

All right, Judith.

2:07.6

So five, four, three, two, and one.

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