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South Slavic Women’s Transgenerational Trauma Healing through Oral Memory Practices: Women War Crimes and War Survivors explains that Kolo-Informed Trauma Treatment is a clinical, cultural, psychological, and neurobiological approach that draws upon the rich scientific UNESCO intangible cultural heritage and embodied practices of the South Slavic Kolo-circle movement format or somatic folk dance. The author argues that Slavic oral memory practices are not in fact worthless or outdated in healing trauma. The inclusion of the little-known or rarely researched women who have experienced war crimes and war trauma demonstrates the intrinsic depth and female indigenous resources aligning with many scientific interdisciplinary fields and women’s human rights. Central to the Kolo-Informed Trauma Treatment is the profound recognition of the importance of women’s cultural memory and somatic oral traditions to evolve towards communal healing. Women’s memory narrative enables the South Slavic people to have profound communal approaches to offer insights into the effects of war trauma, advocating paths towards thriving. Through a recalibration with the relationship of women as valued resources and prominence as creators of healing cultures, South Slavic women’s communal healing practices, if orchestrated on a planetary scale, elaborate inclusive dynamic homeostasis.

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Danica Anderson's important research adds to the fields of feminist psychology, psychohistory, and trauma healing through restoring women's cultural contributions.--Judy Grahn, author of Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World While the focus of this book is on South Slavic Women's transgenerational trauma healing, the implications are much broader. The author, Danica Anderson, developed a close relationship with these war survivors and delves deeply into their experience of telling these stories of courage and resilience. The long-lasting effects of both direct and indirect war experience are clearly exposed. However, this is balanced by descriptions of transcendence and healing. Kolo, a traditional circle dance, plays a key role in this process. The influence of Danica's work goes far beyond the South Slavic Women. Just as trauma impacts later generations, healing is also passed to the generations that follow. Sharing the stories of South Slavic women and their traumatic experiences, as well as their path to healing, sheds light and gives hope to peoples around the world and through many generations to come.--Jeane Rhodes, author of Birth of Hope

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Dancia Andersonholds doctorate is in clinical psychology with a specialization in somatic psychology and Polyvagal theory.

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