Psychodynamic psychotherapy in South Africa : contexts, theories and applications /
This book takes the reader on a journey through the sensitive and often painful realities of contemporary South African life. Offering a fresh and innovative perspective on psychodynamic psychotherapy, it captures the possibilities of using psychodynamic theory in service of progressive and socially...
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| Language: | English |
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Johannesburg, South Africa :
Wits University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- SECTION 1: Subjectivity and identity
- 1. Naming and otherness: South African intersubjective psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the negotiation of racialised histories / Sally Swartz
- 2. Raising the colour bar: exploring issues of race, racism and racialised identities in the South African therapeutic context / Yvette Esprey
- 3. Subjectivity and identity in South Africa today / Glenys Lobban
- SECTION II: Traumatic stress
- 4. Psychotherapy and disrupted attachment in the aftermath / Cora Smith
- 5. Traumatic stress, internal and external: what do psychodynamic perspectives have to contribute? / Gill Eagle
- SECTION III: Social issues
- 6. Unconscious meaning and magic: comparing psychoanalysis and African indigenous healing / Gavin Ivey
- 7. Intimate partner violence in post-apartheid South Africa: psychoanalytic insights and dilemmas / Tina Sideris
- 8. Serial murder and psychoanalysis in South Africa: teasing out contextual issues amid intrapsychic phenomena in two case studies / Giada del Fabbrao
- 9. Some psychoanalytic reflections on a project working with HIV orphans and their caregivers / Vanessa Hemp
- 10. Reclaiming genealogy, memory and history: the psychodynamic potential for reparative therapy in contemporary South Africa / Michael O'Loughlin.