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A powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of traumaOn July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the world it inhabits were shattered.At once a personal narrative of recovery and a philosophical exploration of trauma, this bravely and beautifully written book examines the undoing and remaking of a self in the aftermath of violence. It explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, memory and truth, identity and self, autonomy and community. It offers imaginative access to the experience of a rape survivor as well as a reflective critique of a society in which women routinely fear and suffer sexual violence.As Brison observes, trauma disrupts memory, severs past from present, and incapacitates the ability to envision a future. Yet the act of bearing witness, she argues, facilitates recovery by integrating the experience into the survivor's life's story. She also argues for the importance, as well as the hazards, of using first-person narratives in understanding not only trauma, but also larger philosophical questions about what we can know and how we should live.

Rape victims --- Recovered memory. --- Traumatic shock. --- Victims of violent crimes --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- Psychology. --- Rehabilitation. --- Academic writing. --- Activism. --- Adult. --- All things. --- Allergy. --- Anger. --- Anthropologist. --- Anxiety. --- Aphasia. --- Assault. --- Attempt. --- Aunt. --- Author. --- Bertrand Russell. --- Blame. --- Childbirth. --- Childhood memory. --- Cognition. --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Crime. --- Cultural heritage. --- Dichotomy. --- Direct experience. --- Emotion. --- Encoding (memory). --- Feeling. --- Femininity. --- First-person narrative. --- Friendship. --- Genre. --- Grief. --- Hate crime. --- Hospital bed. --- Humiliation. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Identity politics. --- Illustration. --- Interdependence. --- Invisibility. --- Irony. --- Irrational number. --- J. L. Austin. --- Jurisprudence. --- Marianne Hirsch. --- Mary Joe Frug. --- Medical diagnosis. --- Metaphysics. --- Morphine. --- Mother. --- Narrative therapy. --- Narrative. --- Nausea. --- Neurochemistry. --- Non-human. --- Obstacle. --- Paul Celan. --- Paul Fussell. --- Performative utterance. --- Personal identity. --- Personal narrative. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Pierre Janet. --- Political philosophy. --- Pornography. --- Posttraumatic stress disorder. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychological trauma. --- Psychotherapy. --- Rape. --- Robin West. --- Sadness. --- Self-defense. --- Self-esteem. --- Series (mathematics). --- Sertraline. --- Sexual assault. --- Sexual violence. --- Slavery. --- Sophie's Choice (novel). --- Speech act. --- Stabbing. --- Startle response. --- State of affairs (sociology). --- Steroid. --- Superiority (short story). --- Symptom. --- The New York Times. --- The Other Hand. --- Theory. --- Title IX. --- Total loss. --- Unconsciousness. --- Understanding. --- Utilitarianism. --- Victimisation. --- Violence Against Women Act. --- Violence. --- Writing. --- Victims of violence --- Victims of crimes --- Violent crimes --- Shock --- Traumatology --- Wounds and injuries --- Delayed memory --- Recovered memories --- Repressed memory --- Memory --- False memory syndrome --- Female rape victims --- Sexual abuse victims --- Brison, Susan J. --- Philosophical anthropology