Judith Lewis Herman writes in the beginning of the chapter “A Forgotten History” in her book “Trauma and Recovery – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror” that:
“The study of psychological trauma has a curious history – one of episodic amnesia. Periods of active investigation have alternated with periods of oblivion. Repeatedly in the past century, similar lines of inquiry have been taken up and abruptly abandoned, only to be rediscovered much later. Classic documents of fifty or one hundred years ago often read like contemporary works. Though the field has in fact an abundant and rich tradition; it has been periodically forgotten and must be periodically reclaimed.”
An explanation why works like Alice Miller’s aren’t translated to Swedish today?
Herman also writes according to World People’s Blog:
“Diagnostic Mislabeling: The tendency to blame the victim has strongly influenced the direction of psychological inquiry.
It has led researchers and clinicians to seek an explanation for the perpetrator’s crimes in the character of the victim. In the case of hostages and prisoners of war, numerous attempts to find supposed personality defects that predisposed captives to 'brainwashing' have yielded few consistent results.”
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