The Other (Dedicated to my son) Complementary theories of racism and discrimination (Small extract from an old essay–Tonya Alexandri, 2009) Exploration and understanding of discrimination practices and investment in ‘extreme’ ideologies and religions could be explained by psychoanalytic concepts like … >>>>>…….>>>>>…….
Monthly Archives: March 2014
When trauma occurs it first impacts the autonomic nervous system and elicits dysregulated arousal. Our frontal lobes shut down and our reactions are subcortical, in other words, when faced with trauma our instinctual/ physical defences are automatically engaged. Fighting and … >>>>>…….>>>>>…….
In her memoir My Father’s House Sylvia Fraser, a Canadian writer, journalist and one of the early survivors to break the silence, wrote in 1987 that ‘though many of my friends feared that my book would prove to be an … >>>>>…….>>>>>…….