Judith Herman is an American psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author who has focused on the understanding and treatment of incest and traumatic stress. Judith Herman is a professor of clinical psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School and director of training at the Victims of Violence Program in the department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance and a founding member of the Women’s Mental Health Collective. Judith Herman is best known for her contributions to the understanding of trauma and its victims, as set out in her second book, “Trauma and Recovery”. Herman also set out a three-stage sequence of trauma treatment and recovery.