Bøker av Jessica Stern

IN THIS SKILLFULLY WROUGHT, POWERFUL STUDY, A TERRORISM EXPERT, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER (THE ULTIMATE TERRORISTS), AND LECTURER AT HARVARD, RETURNS TO A DEFINITIVE EPISODE OF TERROR IN HER OWN EARLY LIFE AND TRACES ITS GRIM, DAMAGING RAMIFICATIONS. HAVING GROWN UP IN CONCORD, MASS., IN 1973, STERN, THEN 15, AND HER SISTER, A YEAR YOUNGER, WERE FORCIBLY RAPED AT GUNPOINT BY AN UNKNOWN INTRUDER; WHEN THE POLICE REOPENED THE CASE IN 2006, STERN WAS COMPELLED TO CONFRONT THE DEVASTATING EXPERIENCE. THE POLICE INITIALLY TIED THE CASE TO A LOCAL SERIAL RAPIST, WHO SERVED 18 YEARS IN PRISON BEFORE HANGING HIMSELF. STERN S PAINFUL JOURNEY TAKES HER BACK TO THE TRAUMATIC AFTERSHOCKS OF THE RAPE, WHEN SHE BEGAN TO AFFECT A STERN, HARD VENEER NOT UNLIKE THE STIFF-UPPER-LIP APPROACH TO SURVIVAL HER OWN GERMAN-BORN JEWISH FATHER HAD ASSUMED AFTER HIS CHILDHOOD YEARS LIVING THROUGH NAZI PERSECUTION. COVERING UP HER DEEP-SEATED SENSE OF SHAME WITH ENTRENCHED SILENCE, STERN HAD A CLASSIC POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER-WHICH SHE WAS ONLY ABLE TO RECOGNIZE AFTER HER OWN WORK INTERVIEWING TERRORISTS. STERN S WORK IS A STRONG, CLEAR-EYED, ELUCIDATING STUDY OF THE PROFOUND REVERBERATIONS OF TRAUMA. फरारी असं म्हणणारी जेसिकास्टर्न,आंतरराष्ट्रीयख्याती ची दहशतवादतज्ज्ञ आणि विरोधाभास असाकी, हीच दहशत तिला स्वत ला अगदी कोवळ्यावयात अनुभवावी लागली - गनपॉइंटवर केलेल्या बलात्काराच्या रूपानं! तीनहून अधिकत पंयादहशती ची वेदना ती नाकारत राहिली; एका कर्तव्यदक्ष पोलीस ऑफिसरनं तिची केस पुन्हा हातात घेईपर्यंत. एकीकडं झ्ऊएची लक्षणं (आघातोत्तरतणावविकृती) तर दुसरीकडं कर्तृत्वाची उंच भरारी; अशा दोन पातळ्यां वर तिचं जीवनपुढं जात राहिलं. पण तिच्यातल्या संशोधकानं आपल्या बलात्

Hailed by critics and readers alike, Jessica Stern's riveting memoir examines the horrors of trauma and denial as she investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist. Alone in an unlocked house, in a safe suburban Massachusetts town, two good, obedient girls, Jessica Stern, fifteen, and her sister, fourteen, were raped on the night of October 1, 1973. The rapist was never caught. For over thirty years, Stern denied the pain and the trauma of the assault. Following the example of her family, Stern?who lost her mother at the age of three, and whose father was a Holocaust survivor?focused on her work instead of her terror. She became a world-class expert on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder who interviewed extremists around the globe. But while her career took off, her success hinged on her symptoms. After her ordeal, she no longer felt fear in normally frightening situations.Stern believed she'd disassociated from the trauma altogether, until a dedicated police lieutenant reopened the case. With the help of the lieutenant, Stern began her own investigation to uncover the truth about the town of Concord, her own family, and her own mind. The result is Denial, a candid, courageous, and ultimately hopeful look at a trauma and its aftermath.

A former NSC staffer, Stern guides us through a post-Cold War world in which the threat of all-out nuclear war is being replaced by the threat of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction. The book depicts a near future in which independent and state-sponsored terrorism using biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons could occur.