Gita Rajan

I boken beskrivs hur traumatiska upplevelser påverkar individen, med fokus på kroppsliga reaktioner, tankar, känslor och socialt samspel. Utifrån den senaste forskningen inom neuropsykologi och psykofysiologi ger boken en ingående inblick i kroppens autonoma styr- och regleringssystem. Den förklarar hur långvarig stress och obearbetat trauma kan leda till bestående fysiologiska förändringar och hur dessa kan förstås och bearbetas för att främja ett långsiktigt läkande på ett effektivt sätt. Boken är uppdelad i fyra sammanflätade delar: • Del I utforskar hjärnans försvarsreaktioner på trauma; från initiala orienteringsreaktioner till mer komplexa strategier som flykt, kamp eller nedstängning och hur dessa påverkar våra autonoma, emotionella och sensoriska regleringsprocesser.• Del II fokuserar på de kontextuella och predisponerande faktorerna för trauma. Här diskuteras anknytningstrauma och dess påverkan på livskvaliteten samt hur interpersonella trauman ofta leder till starka skamkänslor. Vidare utforskas sambandet mellan sorg, förlust och trauma, belyst även ur ett transkulturellt perspektiv.• Del III presenterar grundläggande behandlingsprinciper och metoder. Här beskrivs centrala terapeutiska principer och hur risken för retraumatisering kan minskas. • Del IV fokuserar på de särskilda utmaningarna vid sexuellt trauma, med kliniska erfarenheter från specialistkliniken WONSA (world of no sexual abuse). Psykiskt trauma vänder sig till läkare, fysioterapeuter, arbetsterapeuter, sjuksköterskor, psykologer och psykoterapeuter. Boken syftar till att ge läsaren resurser för att bemöta traumatiserade patienter och bredda behandlingsalternativen.

The words in this book all relate to different aspects of being human in the vast consciousness of nothing and the vibration of the reflection of that which cannot be described. It is not a book to be read only by ones mind, but to be explored with ones heart. The chapters include subjects like Evil, Hierarchies, the Darkness of Truth and Complexity as well as Simplicity, Love, Resonance, Compassion and Celebration. Gita Rajan is a Swedish-Indian physician, researcher, and founder of the Swedish non-profit non-governmental organization World of no Sexual Abuse, WONSA. Through WONSA’s Specialist Clinic and its research and education, the organization works to do human rights-based healing and health care available for survivors of sexual violence all over the world. Any surplus from the book goes to the work of WONSA, for a world in peace.

As the British empire expanded throughout the world, the English language played an important role in power relations between Britain and its colonies. English was used as a colonizing agent to suppress the indigenous cultures of various peoples and to make them subject to British rule. With the end of World War II, many countries became gradually decolonized, and their indigenous cultures experienced a renaissance. Colonial mores and power systems clashed and combined with indigenous traditions to create postcolonial texts. This volume treats postcoloniality as a process of cultural and linguistic interplay, in which British culture initially suppressed indigenous cultures and later combined with them after the decline of the British empire. The first section of this book provides an introductory overview of English postcoloniality. This section is followed by chapters discussing postcoloniality and literature from an historical perspective in particular countries around the world. The third section gives special attention to the literature and culture of indigenous peoples. A selected bibliography concludes the work.

Postcolonial discourse is fast becoming an area of rich academic debate. At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the contested authority of empire and its impact upon previously colonized peoples and their indigenous cultures. This book examines various theories of colonization and decolonization, and how the ideas of a British empire create networks of discourses in contemporary postcolonial cultures. The various essays in this book address the question of empire by exploring such constructs as nation and modernity, third-world feminisms, identity politics, the status and roles of exiles, exilic subjectivities, border intellectuals, and the presence of a postcolonial body in today's classrooms. Topics discussed include African-American literature, the nature of postcolonial texts in first-world contexts, jazz, films, and TV as examples of postcolonial discourse, and the debates surrounding biculturalism and multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia.