Author Archive for Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.

Combat Trauma from Ancient Times to Modern Day

Friday, July 11th, 2025

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge and Lt Colonel Ivan Welch, PhD, US Army Combat trauma has affected soldiers throughout history, from ancient times to the modern day. The psychophysical effects of combat have been recorded since the early days of human civilization. From the time of Homer’s ancient story of the battle between the Trojans and the Greeks (1200 […]

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Depression in Children

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025

Dr. Ruwan M. Jayatunge M.D. PhD Depression is a mood disorder that can affect adults as well as children. In general terms, depression is an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness, sadness, and lack of self-worth. It is more than a sad feeling. Depression is common among adults. Unlike adults, childhood depression is difficult to distinguish. They […]

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Suicidal Behavior Disorder

Saturday, May 10th, 2025

Dr. Neil Fernando & Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Suicide is a psychiatric emergency and needs immediate intervention. It has been recognized as a major health problem and a leading cause of death worldwide. Suicide does not occur in a vacuum; it’s a fatal outcry and a highly complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Suicide is the most […]

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A Psychological Review of Gananath Obeyesekere’s book, Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience

Monday, April 28th, 2025

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D PhD  In his book Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience, Gananath Obeyesekere – Professor of anthropology at Princeton University, discusses profound anthropological and psychological themes. He uses religious symbolism to explain psychopathologies that impact people and their outer society. He applies his knowledge of anthropology to […]

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ප්‍රභාකරන් සාධකය පිලිබඳ කථිකාවක්  WANESA TV සමග

Thursday, April 17th, 2025

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. ප්‍රභාකරන් තුල ව්‍යාථවේදී පෞරුෂ සාධක Pathological Personality traits දක්නට ලැබුණි. නමුත් මේ ගැන කතිකාවට බඳුන් වී ඇත්තේ ඉතාම අඩුවෙනි.2004 වසරේ ප්‍රභාකරන් දේශපාලනමය සහ යුදමය වශයෙන් ඉතා බලවත්ව සිටි අවදියේ දී ඔහුගේ පෞරුෂ සාධක හෙළි කරමින් කරමින් ප්‍රභාකරන් සාධකය පිලිබඳ මනෝවිද්‍යාත්මක විශ්ලේෂණයක් යන කෘතිය මම එළි දැක්වුයෙමි. එම ගවේෂණාත්මක කෘතිය මගින් […]

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Mind-Wandering in the Age of Overstimulation: The Mental Health Impact of Boredom

Saturday, April 12th, 2025

Dr. Ransirini de Silva & Dr. Ruwan M. Jayatunge Boredom is an underexplored but significant emotional state with implications for mental health. In the modern digital age—where attention is continually stimulated and information is instantaneously accessible—the experience of boredom may be more frequent, and perhaps more distressing, than in previous generations. Boredom is a transient […]

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාව විසින් බිහි කල විශිෂ්ටම මානව විද්‍යාඥයා- ගනනාථ ඔබේසේකර

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD  වරක් මා විසින් ලියන ලද සිංහබාහු කථාවේ මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක පාර්ශවය ගැන ලිපිය – Sinhabahu The Paradigmatic Myth Of The Sri Lankan Oedipusකියවූ ප්‍රංශ ජාතික මනෝ විද්‍යාඥයෙකු වන Eric Smadja මෙම ලිපිය මහාචාර්‍ය ගනනාථ ඔබේසේකර වෙත යවන්න යැයි කීවේය. ඒ මන්ද කියා මා විමසූ විට ඔහු කීවේ ගනනාථ ඔබේසේකර යනු […]

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Healing the War Trauma in Ukraine

Friday, March 21st, 2025

Dr. Alexandr Dovgan & Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  Complex traumatic events are associated with armed conflict (Coventry et al., 2020), and it has a possible impact on mental health. These conflicts can cause physical, psychological, mental, and spiritual consequences for people (Moreno-Chaparro et al., 2022). Armed conflicts extinguish the social fabric and cause economic and cultural repercussions.  Moreno-Chaparro […]

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පාතාලය මර්ධනය කිරීම Palali Syndrome..!

Monday, February 24th, 2025

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. පාතාලය මර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා හමුදාවෙන් පැන ගිය සොල්දාදුවන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට ආරක්‍ෂක ලේකම් නියෝග කොට තිබේ. ඔවුන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට ගැනීමෙන් පමණක් මේ ප්‍රශ්නය විසඳිය නොහැක. යුද ආතතියට ලක්ව සිටින සහ සමාජ විරෝධී පෞරුෂ ලක්‍ෂන පෙන්වන කොටස් මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක සහ මනෝ සමාජීය පුනරුත්තාපනයට යොමු කල යුතුය. ඒ සඳහා දැණුමක් තිබෙන […]

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The Importance of Metabolic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice

Friday, February 21st, 2025

Dr. Sarath Panduwawala and Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge Metabolic psychiatry is a new field in psychiatry, and it examines mental health issues associated with metabolic dysfunction. Current evidence indicates an association between metabolic dysfunction in the brain and mental illness (Smith, 2024). Metabolic syndrome also has a huge impact on mental health. The metabolic syndrome, […]

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The Psychological Effects of Torture

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. P Torture and its Psychological / Sociological and Political implications Discussion by Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD (This program was conducted under the guidance of Stanford University) Link ; Torture and its Psychological / Sociological and Political implications

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Analyzing the Prabhakaran Factor

Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. Sigmund Freud.Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954–2009) was the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and he launched a destructive proxy war against the Sri Lankan government for over nearly three decades. Prabhakaran was the most lethal and cataclysmic force experienced by the […]

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ   නීති විරෝධී වකුගඩු ජාවාරම  පිලිබඳව ජනතාව දැණුවත් කිරීමේ   Zoom  සංවාදය

Monday, January 13th, 2025

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. දූෂිත වෛද්‍යවරු සීමිත කණ්ඩායමක් විසින් සිදු කරන මෙම නීති විරෝධී මිනිස් අවයව ජාවාරම  දෙවනි වන්නේ මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරමට පමණි. වකුගඩු මාෆියාවේ රැකවරණය සහිතව ලියකියවිලි වල සඳහන් නොකර බොහෝ වකුගඩු සැත්කම් රහසින් පුද්ගලික රෝහල් වල සිදු වන බව වාර්තා වේ. මෙම මාෆියාව නිසා මේ වන විට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නීති විරෝධී වකුගඩු බද්ධ […]

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The Training Program by Gary Noesner of the FBI

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD  My dear friend Gary Noesner—the former FBI agent and the key negotiator during the Waco siege—agreed to conduct a 40-min educational Zoom program for Sri Lankan professionals who are interested in positive communication and hostage negotiations. This is a free session, and we are inviting members from the security […]

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The life is like a Russian Roulette

Monday, January 6th, 2025

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The life is like a Russian roulette Dangerous and unpredictableIt is a game of chance that could end deadlyOften taking foolhardy risksIt’s highly irresponsibleMorally indefensibleBut the end is guaranteedYou cannot escapeWith each click of the gunYour fears intensifyIf you are religiousBehold to your godIf you are an atheistCount on fatalism Anyhow […]

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Malignant PTSD (C- PTSD) in Sri Lankan Combatants and Members of the LTTE

Thursday, December 26th, 2024

Professor Daya Somasundaram / Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Prolonged armed conflict in Sri Lanka has created higher rates of mental ailments among the Army personal and members of the LTTE. A significant number of people have been diagnosed with complex forms of PTSD aka Malignant PTSD. These individuals with malignant forms of anxiety have a […]

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Remembering the Tsunami Disaster

Wednesday, December 25th, 2024

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge  The massive earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia on December 26, 2004, registered a magnitude of nine on the Richter scale. The effect of this earthquake made massive tidal waves that destroyed the coastal belt of northern and southern Sri Lanka. Perhaps this must have been the most catastrophic natural […]

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Presentation on the Buddhist Jataka Stories and the DSM – based Mental Disorders

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The Buddhist Jataka Stories and the DSM – based Mental Disorders   By Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD   Organized by Buddhist and Pali University  of Sri Lanka Youtube Link ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O4B681Cf7A

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Your Heart is a Haunted Mansion

Monday, December 23rd, 2024

Ruwan M Jayatunge  Your heart is a hunted mansion Appear menacing and imposingsurrounded by dead trees and plantsThe windows are dark and filled with shadowsWhen I opened the main door, I got a heavy feelingAm I walking towards my ill-fated destiny?I see flickering candles forming shadowsThe hallway is like a holograph of an eventGiving me […]

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Addressing the Mental Health Issues of Post-War Sri Lanka

Thursday, December 19th, 2024

Dr. Sarath Panduwawala and Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The ‘Post-War Period’ can be defined as the years following a major war, characterized by significant changes in the individuals as well as in the society. The Eelam War in Sri Lanka erupted in 1983 and ended in 2009. Following these years, Sri Lankan society experienced a […]

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Discussion on Cannabis Pros, Cons;

Monday, December 16th, 2024

By Dr . Wasantha Sena Weliange Dr. Upali Peris Dr. Manoj Fernando Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge Youtube Link ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeS1RBhyp1E

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Cannabis; Pros, Cons, Debate, Arguments .

Monday, December 9th, 2024

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Cannabis; Pros, Cons, Debate, Arguments …Zoom Discussion13th of December (Friday) at 8.30 pm SL Time Discussion panel Dr . Wasantha Sena WeliangeDr. Upali PerisDr. Manoj FernandoDr. Ruwan M Jayatunge Link ;  https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81288753119?pwd=6a4ujcxOH6MrUDD1bTY3s45zURiTxq.1  https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81288753119?pwd=6a4ujcxOH6MrUDD1bTY3s45zURiTxq.1

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YouTube Presentation: King Seethawaka Rajasinghe -The Monarch who suffered from PTSD By Professor Raj Somadeva and Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge

Sunday, December 1st, 2024

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. According to the Western chronological records, the first patients who showed PTSD-like symptomatology were recorded in 1666. These records were based on Samuel Pepy’s diary, which described the bizarre behavior pattern of the survivors of the Great Fire of London.  Samuel Pepy vividly portrayed the nightmares, intrusions and flashbacks experienced […]

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A History and Psychology Discussion ; King Seethawaka Rajasinghe -The Monarch who suffered from PTSD

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

By Professor Raj Somadeva and Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge TimeNov 21, 2024 10:30 AM Colombo Meeting ID725 2642 0413 Securitychecked Passcode******** Invite LinkInvite Link https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72526420413?pwd=VrhALeRPERtZdmyvYXDyyTmwoS4lsz.1https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72526420413?pwd=VrhALeRPERtZdmyvYXDyyTmwoS4lsz.1

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Reincarnation: A Myth or a Fact

Monday, November 18th, 2024

By Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D PhD YouTube PresentationOrganized by Dr. Vipula Wanigasekara and Team Link ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJipXqSE8gc

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War Trauma in Sri Lanka Presentation by Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD Organized by Professor Judith Herman – Harvard University

Monday, November 11th, 2024

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.    Odysee Video Link alternative to YouTube : https://player.odycdn.com/v6/streams/90eac9df9ddf5fbd9a76399cd6fa420aa1a74cff/98b48a.mp4

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PTSD and Psychotherapeutic Interventions  By Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD  Organized by  Vinnitsa National Medical University, Ukraine

Thursday, October 31st, 2024

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Deconstruction of the Movie Crash

Saturday, October 26th, 2024

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD  Crash is a 2004 American movie that discusses racial relations in America. The movie is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles and was inspired by real-life events. Crash received several awards and nominations.  Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and the Movie Crash”  (a)    The self-fulfilling prophecy is a self-made assumption based on future events, and […]

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Presentation on Literature and Psychology

Saturday, October 26th, 2024

By Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD Organized by  the  Wayamba University of Sri Lanka

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“Fiddler on the Roof, Sri Lankan Version

Tuesday, October 8th, 2024

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D PhD Toronto Canada I was amazed by seeing “Fiddler on the Roof,” a musical drama at the Lionel Wendt last night. This stunning drama was directed by Jerome L. de Silva. This musical was based on the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Norman Jewison. The film is based on Tevye, a […]

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