This is a hybrid event.

Join author Judith Herman, Janet Yassen, LICSW  and Mary R. Harvey, Ph.D.

**From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, a powerful manifesto for reimagining justice, based on the testimony of trauma survivors.**
 
The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of those trials for the survivors of their abuse. 
  
The conventional retributive process fails to serve most survivors; it was never designed for them. Renowned trauma expert Judith L. Herman 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 Truth and Repair, 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. 

Judith Lewis Herman M.D. is Professor of 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.  Dr. Herman received her medical degree at Harvard Medical School and her training in general and community psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center.  She is the author of two award-winning books:  Father-Daughter Incest (Harvard University Press, 1981), and Trauma and Recovery (Basic Books, 1992).   She has lectured widely on the subject of sexual and domestic violence.  She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984, the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the 2000 Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women's Association.  In 2007 she was named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Janet Yassen, LICSW has, for 50 years, provided direct service for individual and groups, communities, consultation, supervision and training nationally and internationally about the issues of violence. Janet is a co-founder of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and formerly Acute Crime Crisis Services Coordinator for the Victims of Violence Program at the Cambridge Hospital. She is a faculty member of the Harvard Medical School, an affiliate of the Center of the Mindfulness and Compassion and is also a trained Chaplain, providing multifaith and secular spiritual support. She has designed and facilitated workshops for clinicians and other providers about the impact of trauma on themselves and strategies for maintaining their own well being while caring for others.

Mary R. Harvey, Ph.D. is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of the Victims of Violence (VOV) Program of the Cambridge Health Alliance. A community and clinical psychologist, Dr.Harvey has lectured widely and written extensively about the ecological context of interpersonal and sexual violence, the treatment of psychological trauma and expressions of recovery and resiliency in trauma survivors. Her work has taken her to Europe, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and, in 2009, to Cape Town, South Africa as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Gender-Based Violence. She is the author of Exemplary Rape Crisis Programs (National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape, NIMH,1985), co-author (with Mary P. Koss) of The Rape Victim: Clinical and Community Interventions (Sage, 1991), and co-author and co-editor (with Dr. Pratyusha Tummala-Narra) of “Sources and expressions of resilience in trauma survivors: Ecological theory, multicultural practice,” co-published in 2007 by Haworth Press and as a special issue the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma.