Denial : a memoir of terror /

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Author / Creator:Stern, Jessica, 1958-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Ecco, c2010.
Description:xvii, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8111760
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ISBN:9780061626654
0061626651
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-300).
Summary:A scientist and expert on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder describes her own journey through trauma and its lingering effects after repressing and disassociating her own ordeal as the victim of an unsolved sexual assault as a teenager.
Table of Contents:
  • acknowledgments
  • preface
  • Jumping Into the Sea
  • 1. Rape
  • 2. The Legacy of the Holocaust
  • 3. The Investigation
  • 4. The Making of a Spy
  • 5. The Rapist
  • 6. Climbing Away
  • 7. Denial
  • 8. The End of Denial
  • 9. The Witnesses
  • 10. Collateral Damage
  • 11. Child Victims
  • 12. War's Victims
  • 13. Faith
  • Postscript
  • notes