On and off for more than two decades, Dr. She was in a hotel ballroom, preparing to present her latest findings, when she tripped on the edge of a rug and smashed her kneecap. Herman - as arbitrary as it was - had consequences for the field. More than most areas of science, psychology has been driven by individual thinkers and communicators. Her research on sexual abuse in the white, working class city of Somerville, Mass., laid out a thesis that was, at the time, radical: that trauma can occur not only in the blind terror of combat, but quietly, within the four walls of a house, at the hands of a trusted person. Her book “Trauma and Recovery,” published two years earlier, had been hailed in The New York Times as “one of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.” Judith Herman was at the height of her influence. In the fall of 1994, the psychiatrist Dr.
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