Helping Hannah, a neighborhood cat, helps Bart overcome his fears and become a survivor.
Parents find it to be an excellent way to talk to and comfort their traumatized child.
Judith Herman, M.D. Harvard Med School's trauma expert Judith Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research on domestic violence, as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism . Herman places individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. A powerful work that will continue to profoundly impact our thinking. She demonstrates that traumatized children can be helped, showing that there is hope for the innocent victims of our frightening world.