Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self

Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self
ISBN-10
0691115702
ISBN-13
9780691115702
Series
Aftermath
Category
Social Science
Pages
165
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Susan J. Brison

Description

As Brison observes in this bravely written account, trauma disrupts memory, severs past from present, and incapacitates the ability to envision a future. Yet the act of bearing witness, she argues, facilitates recovery by integrating the experience into the survivor's life's story.

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