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\"Clinicians recognize trauma & loss as a prominent source of clients' problems. Progressive counting represents a significant advance in trauma treatment, because it is about as efficient, effective, and well-tolerated as EMDR while being far simpler for therapists to master and do well\"-- Provided by publisher.

This article interprets Ayn Rand's last novel, Atlas Shrugged, through the lens of Trauma Studies. The author argues that the novel reflects Rand's traumatic experiences of the February and October revolutions in Russia and can be viewed as the means by which the author engaged in the process of what Dominick LaCapra has called “working-through.”

This final volume of \"\"Death and Bereavement Around the World\"\" reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, and other issues. The first few chapters describe progress in end-of-life care, including some new tools to evaluate hospice care (chapter 1); what children know, when they know it, and how parents can respond to questions, with some guidelines for support by schools (chapter 2); the importance of ritual (chapter 3); and, gender differences in death customs around the world (chapter 4).The transcript of a 1997 interview of John (Jack) Morgan by Pittu Laungani is presented as chapter 5. The following chapters discuss death systems and suicide (chapter 6); HIV/AIDS, including the role of cultural and economic factors in the spread of the disease (chapter 7); and grief and bereavement in the developing world, taking the AIDS pandemic as a specific challenge (chapter 8). Chapter 9 covers issues related to dying and death in Romania. In chapter 10 the focus is on the various functions and uses of names in a cross-cultural context. Roadside memorials as a pivotal healing strategy are the topic of chapter 11. Chapters 12 and 13 focus on spiritual experience with loss.The final chapter presents some conclusions, and in the Epilogue, Mary Ann Morgan honors the life, career, dying, death, and achievements of John (Jack) Morgan. The 'Final Word' includes the words of Pittu Laungani, from a book published just weeks before his death in February 2007.This work is for anyone interested in or working in death and bereavement issues, particularly academics, educators, librarians, chaplains, clergy, funeral service directors, hospice care providers and volunteers, palliative care providers, nurses, immigration officers, psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, and counselors, especially bereavement counselors. PREFACE Stephen Palmer GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO SERIES John D Morgan, Pittu Laungani and Stephen Palmer TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR JACK MORGAN Pittu Laungani TRIBUTE TO PITTU: Reflections on the Last Months of His Life and Achievements Ann Laungani INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME PART 1 Pittu Laungani PART 2 Stephen Palmer CHAPTER 1 End of Life Care Stephen Connor CHAPTER 2 Children and Death Around the World Robert Stevenson CHAPTER 3 Ritual: Making Special: The Right of Every Griever Harold Ivan Smith CHAPTER 4 Gender Differences in Death Customs Around the World Tom Golden CHAPTER 5 Pittu Laungani in Conversation with John D. Morgan Pittu Laungani and John D. Morgan CHAPTER 6 Death Systems and Suicide Around the World Antoon Leenaars CHAPTER 7 AIDS = Death Inge B. Corless CHAPTER 8 Grief and Bereavement in the Developing World Val Maasdorp and Rona Martin CHAPTER 9 Death and Bereavement in Romania Marius Rotar CHAPTER 10 Names and their Uses Sam Silverman CHAPTER 11 Roadside Memorials: Beyond Individual Grieving Iara Costa and Roy Moodley CHAPTER 12 Spiritual Experiences with Loss: Encouragement or Disaster? Rev. Richard Gilbert CHAPTER 13 Spirituality, Dying, Death, and Bereavement: Time for a Radically Expanded Definition of Spirituality Kate Arthur CHAPTER 14 Conclusion Stephen Palmer EPILOGUE Reflection on the Life of John Daniel Morgan: A Journey to Wholeness Mary Ann Morgan FINAL WORD Pittu Laungani Meet the Contributors Index

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This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, and furthermore that the benefits of this exercise include not only what it can do for African literature, but also what it can do for trauma studies. He makes the case for understanding trauma healing within the larger project of peacebuilding, with an emphasis on the transformative potential of what he terms the African moral imagination as embodied in the creative work of its writers. He offers readings of selected works by Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Adichie, and Nuruddin Farah as case studies for how African literature can influence our understanding of trauma and trauma healing. This will be a valuable volume for those with interests in current trends and developments in trauma studies, African literary studies, postcolonial studies, and memory studies.

Can the mind really generate a physical disease? Conversely, can the body cause mental illness? What do we know today about their interaction? The relations between body and mind are the source of many problems that are currently treated separately by psychoanalysts and doctors because of the compartmentalisation between their disciplines. Despite differences in clinical practice, we all stand to benefit from a common understanding of the reciprocal influences of the mind and the body and the ways in which these are interrelated. It is time to stop treating the body in isolation from treatment of the mind and to understand that where the psychic apparatus fails in its key task of managing the excitations generated by the tensions and frustrations of everyday life, it is the body that takes over. With a wealth of clinical examples, the author proposes an innovative theoretical and clinical approach that seeks to break down the barriers between biology and psychoanalysis; he also demonstrates its benefits for the health and recovery of patients and its implications for disease prevention.