Laura K Kerr, PhD http://www.laurakkerr.com Trauma's Labyrinth Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Let there be love! http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/05/06/let-there-be-love/ http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/05/06/let-there-be-love/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 04:18:09 +0000 Laura K Kerr http://www.laurakkerr.com/?p=7860 In The Red Book, CG Jung declared, “the brightness of love seems to come from the fact that love is visible light and action.” This may be one of the more expansive definitions of love, and it shows the reach for hyperbole that love inspires. But love is both elixir [...]

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]]> http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/28/an-ambivalent-writer/feed/ 4 To Neglect Is To Indulge http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/25/to-neglect-is-to-indulge/ http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/25/to-neglect-is-to-indulge/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:30:46 +0000 Laura K Kerr http://www.laurakkerr.com/?p=7805 “The health of humankind is not measured just by its coughs and wheezes but by the fevers of its soul. Or perhaps more important yet, by the quickness and care we bring against them. If our history suggests unreason’s durability, our experience teaches that to neglect it is to indulge [...]

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]]> http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/25/to-neglect-is-to-indulge/feed/ 0 What to Call “Terror”? http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/20/genocide-terrorism-boston-bombings/ http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/20/genocide-terrorism-boston-bombings/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:40:49 +0000 Laura K Kerr http://www.laurakkerr.com/?p=7771 Lately I have been working on a paper about the phenomenology of violence, focusing on the present atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. On the days when I am not trying to grapple with the inconceivable brutality haunting this region of the world, [...]

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]]> http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/20/genocide-terrorism-boston-bombings/feed/ 0 Two New Blogs! http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/15/two-new-blogs/ http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/15/two-new-blogs/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:06:27 +0000 Laura K Kerr http://www.laurakkerr.com/?p=7735 I’ve started two new blogs, Women. Healing. Violence. and Trauma’s Labyrinth, Curated. I will continue to use this blog, Trauma’s Labyrinth, for sharing longer posts and essays. Both Women. Healing. Violence. and Trauma’s Labyrinth, Curated are curation projects, with minimal comments from me [...]

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]]> http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/15/two-new-blogs/feed/ 0 A Sensorimotor Approach to Becoming Indigenous (and healing trauma) http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/07/sensorimotor-indigenous/ http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/07/sensorimotor-indigenous/#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:00:59 +0000 Laura K Kerr http://www.laurakkerr.com/?p=7586 Trickster plays with me. Last week I wrote about Indigenous wisdom as a “gentle” trickster for violent, destructive times. This week, while hiking among the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park, I learned the Paiutes Indians called these rock pillars the “Legend People,” who coyote trickster [...]

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]]> http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/04/07/sensorimotor-indigenous/feed/ 0 A Gentle Trickster http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/03/26/a-gentle-trickster/ http://www.laurakkerr.com/2013/03/26/a-gentle-trickster/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:52:16 +0000 Laura K Kerr http://www.laurakkerr.com/?p=7490 Consider the following classification of animals from an ancient Chinese encyclopedia: Animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a [...]

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