Truth and Repair

Judith Lewis Herman M.D. is Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry (part time) at Harvard Medical School. For thirty years, until she retired, she was Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA. She is the author of the award-winning books Father-Daughter Incest (Harvard University Press, 1981), and Trauma and Recovery (Basic Books, 1992). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984 and the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2007 she was named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Her new book, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice, was published in March, 2023.

Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., is a pioneering clinician, researcher, and teacher in posttraumatic stress whose work integrates developmental, neurobiological, and interpersonal aspects of trauma. His bestselling book, The Body Keeps the Score, transforms our understanding of trauma, revealing how it rearranges the brain’s wiring, and highlighting innovative treatments at the forefront of psychiatry. With over 150 peer-reviewed articles, Dr. van der Kolk has studied such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater and EMDR. He is founder of the Trauma Center (now the Trauma Research Foundation) in Boston, MA, past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, Principal Investigator of the Boston site of MAPS sponsored MDMA assisted psychotherapy study, and teaches at universities and hospitals globally.