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Amanda Dowd is an academic researcher from International Association of Administrative Professionals. The author has contributed to research in topics: Negation & Gestalt psychology. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications.
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Uprooted minds: displacement, trauma and dissociation.
TL;DR: An argument for the usefulness of the recognition of the implicit simultaneous links between the development of psychic skin and the establishment of the body schema development of a sense of identity relationship with place is presented.
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Displacement trauma: complex states of personal, collective and intergenerational fragmentation and their intergenerational transmission.
TL;DR: This paper expands on the author's theory of the implicit psychological organizing gestalt, an associated pattern of psychic functions which operate in an integrated way to simultaneously structure and organize the authors' experience of self-cohesion and self-continuity, to argue that it is the rupture of this gestalt which underlies the experience of displacement trauma.
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The passion of the country: bearing the burdens of traumatic histories, personal and collective
TL;DR: This paper explored Lear's statement in terms of the psychic pain of a culture founded upon waves of migration and traumatic dispossession to think about the question "What does it mean to live here?" and what can that teach us about the formation of identity and cultural identity.
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Primal negation as a primitive agony: reflections on the absence of a place-for-becoming.
TL;DR: Case material is presented which focuses on an experience of what the author describes as 'primal negation' which gives rise to primitive displacement anxiety and this is proposed as a specific form of primitive mental agony.
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