ABSTRACT
I have been studying trauma for the last 40 years. As I outline elsewhere (Alpert, 2015), my focus has been on sexual violence against women in wars, in genocide, in the military, in the family, and in schools and other institutional settings. I have directed a trauma program; taught courses on trauma in postdoctoral and graduate programs; conducted research; engaged in clinical practice with a specialty in trauma; and served on a number of working groups, committees, and boards of the American Psychological Association concerned with women’s issues, particularly violence and genocide against women and children. I have served as an expert witness on a number of high profile cases throughout the United States, testifying on behalf of victims. And I, along with others, have worked to institutionalize this effort by creating structures, such as the Division of Trauma of the American Psychological Association. I was also a traumatized child, a victim of intergenerational transmission of trauma, as I indicate below.
