Denial: A Memoir

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“Denial is one of the most important books I have read in a decade….Brave, life-changing, and gripping as a thriller….A tour de force.”

–Naomi Wolf

One of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, Jessica Stern has subtitled her book Denial, “A Memoir of Terror.” A brave and astonishingly frank examination of her own unsolved rape at the age of fifteen, Denial investigates how the rape and its aftermath came to shape Stern’s future and her work. The author of the New York Times Notable Book Terror in the Name of God, Jessica Stern brilliantly explores the nature of evil in an extraordinary volume that Louise Richardson, author of What Terrorists Want, calls, “Memorable, powerful and deeply courageous…a riveting read.”

Instead of feeling terror, she studied it–now, decades later, she turns that same unflinching gaze upon herself.

• From Personal Trauma to Professional Calling: Discover the astonishing connection between Stern’s terrifying unsolved rape at fifteen and her life’s work studying the world’s most violent men.
• The Psychology of PTSD: An unflinching look at post-traumatic stress disorder, memory, and dissociation from an author who finds the symptoms in her own life after decades of studying them in others.
• Reopening an Unsolved Crime: Follow the gripping police investigation as a thirty-three-year-old cold case is reopened, revealing shocking truths about the perpetrator and the crime.
• Communal and Personal Denial: A powerful examination of how a community, a family, and a victim can become complicit in forgetting–and the staggering cost of silence.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jessica Stern
Published: 06/07/2011
Publisher: Ecco Press
ISBN: 9780061626661
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 0.81″ H x 7.97″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
Stern, Jessica: –

Jessica Stern is a leading expert on terrorism and trauma. Stern is the coauthor with J. M. Berger of ISIS: The State of Terror and the author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror and Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, selected by the New York Times as a notable book of the year. She has held fellowships awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Erikson Institute, and the MacArthur Foundation. She was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a national fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a fellow of the World Economic Forum. Stern is a research professor at Boston University. Prior to teaching, she worked in government, serving on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.