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Living Within Your Window of Tolerance

A Quick Guide to Regulating Emotions, Calming Your Body & Reducing Anxiety

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Canguilhem and the New "Normal" (download chapter)

Chapter in: The Normal and Its Orders: Reading Georges Canguilhem. Godé Iwele, Laura Kerr, V. Y. Mudimbe (Eds.) Editions Malaïka, 2007. Unfortunately, the edited volume is out of print.

A Phenomenology of Violence (download chapter)

Chapter in: Violence in/and the Great Lakes: The Thought of VY Mudimbe and Beyond. G. Farred, K. Kavwahirehi & L. Praeg (Eds.) Thinking Africa Series. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014.

The Betrayal That Was Love

Chapter in: Stories of Complicated Grief: A Critical Anthology. ED Miller (Ed.) Washington DC: NASW Press, 2013.

The ‘Borderline’ As the Sociocultural Origin of Borderline Personality Disorder and Psychiatry (download article)

Article in: Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 6(3), 201-215, 2004. (Published at www.springerpub.com.)

Is Social Anxiety Making Us Depressed?: A Social Evolutionary Hypothesis for Why SSRIs Work (download article)

Article in: Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 10 (1), 16-30, 2008. (Published at www.springerpub.com.)

Encyclopedia Entries

Depersonalization

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Globalization

PTSD

Synchronicity

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In Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Thomas Teo (Ed.), Springer Verlag, 2014.

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Failure to Launch and the Pain of Emotional Dependency (download review)

Review of: Separation-Individuation Struggles in Adult Life: Leaving Home, by Sarah Fels Usher. Published: PsycCRITIQUES April 24, 2017, Vol. 62, No. 17, Article 4.

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The “Trauma-Focused Turn” in Critical Psychology (download review)

Review of: De-Medicalizing Misery II: Society, Politics and the Mental Health IndustryEdited by Ewen Speed, Joanna Moncrieff and Mark Rapley. Published: PsycCRITIQUES, June 1, 2015, Vol. 60, No. 22, Article 7. 

The Humanities Reforming Psychiatry (download article)

Review published in: Theory & Psychology, 19 (3), 431-438, 2009.  (Published at http://tap.sagepub.com.)

Helium in the Polar Wind

TI Gombosi, LK Kerr, AF Nagy and RW Cannata. Helium in the Polar Wind. Advances in Space Research, 12 (6), 183 -186, 1992.

laura k kerr, phd

laura k kerr, phd

Mental Health Scholar & Author

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson

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