Djevelen ligger i diskursen. En kritisk diskursanalyse av Marte Krogh-saken i VG

This article is a critical discourse analysis of a provocative news story later heavily criticized for being based on a misquotation. The analysis shows how the quote is offensive primarily by being assigned to a critical news discourse that constructs a dichotomy between «the conservative upper class» and «modern female Norway». Therefore, the ethics of the case are not just a matter of quotation technique, but rather in which perception of reality the journalists considered it natural to frame the story as a whole – and, in fact, necessary even to make it a story

Utgangspunktet for selgers rettingsfrist etter avhendingsloven §4-10

Forfatterversjon etter fagfellervurdering før publiseringEtter avhendingsloven § 4-10 har en selger en rett til å rette (utbedre) mangler ved en eiendom, gitt at visse vilkår er oppfylt. Konsekvensen av slik retting er at kjøper taper sin rett til å kreve prisavslag eller heve kjøpet på grunnlag av mangelen1, Forfatterversjo

Gender Incongruence: Youth with a Special Talent for Gender; Supporting Youth and Families

Understandings of gender are undergoing great change. In caring for children and youth experiencing gender incongruence, we reflect over how to create a systemic conversational space in which they, along with their families, can explore feelings and experiences of gender identity. The family as a phenomenon is a strong discourse, and parents’ voices are important in how this process is experienced. Their active participation in therapy can contribute to children and youth becoming secure in owning their gender identities. We describe using a gender map as an aid to talk about feelings, experiences and desires in conversations with older children, youth, parents and their networks.publishedVersio

Treatment of Traumatised Sexuality

Based on therapeutic meetings with individuals who have experienced sexual violence and abuse, the challenge is how do we help these couples to establish sexual relationships on their own terms, without interference of defence or coping strategies they have used to protect themselves against the overwhelming experiences of violence or abuse in the past? This article will focus on therapeutic work with such couples and how to interact with them and support their efforts to establish satisfying sexual relationships, based on sexological experience as well as experience from work with traumatisation. The basis for our treatment is a modified version of William Masters and Virginia Johnson’s approach. The technique of sensate focus is central, modified by trauma theory, including the understanding of dissociation, and the need to integrate memories from different levels: somatic, emotional, and cognitive. The traumatised client needs special attention to the experiences of predictability and safety and respect due to their history of being transgressed against. The therapists must be aware of the issue of dissociation; different dissociated inner parts can play different roles in the interaction between client and therapist. While couples therapy is a necessary frame for this therapy, the therapist often needs to work with issues unique to each individual. Each partner must be able to identify their own responses and their own sexual needs and preferences. It may therefore be valuable to have a co-therapist. The central goal is for the clients to identify responses to stimulation as a here and now experience in a setting that feels safe and welcome.publishedVersio

Topological superconductivity mediated by magnons of helical magnetic states

We recently showed that spin fluctuations of noncoplanar magnetic states can induce topological superconductivity in an adjacent normal metal [K. M{\ae}land et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 156002 (2023)]. The noncolinear nature of the spins was found to be essential for this result, while the necessity of noncoplanar spins was unclear. In this paper we show that magnons in coplanar, noncolinear magnetic states can mediate topological superconductivity in a normal metal. Two models of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction are studied to illustrate the need for a sufficiently complicated Hamiltonian describing the magnetic insulator. The Hamiltonian, in particular the specific form of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, affects the magnons and by extension the effective electron-electron interaction in the normal metal. We solve a linearized gap equation in the case of weak-coupling superconductivity. The result is a time-reversal-symmetric topological superconductor, as confirmed by calculating the topological invariant. In analogy with magnon-mediated superconductivity from antiferromagnets, Umklapp scattering enhances the critical temperature of superconductivity for certain Fermi momenta.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure