Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa

Cora Smith, Glenys Lobban, Michael O’Loughlin, Sally Swartz, Tina Sideris, Gavin Ivey, Vanessa Hemp, Yvette Esprey, Gillian Eagle, Giada Fabbro

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Chapter 1 Naming and otherness: South African intersubjective psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the negotiation of racialised histories - Sally Swartz

Chapter 2 Raising the colour bar: Exploring issues of race, racism and racialised identities in the South African therapeutic context - Yvette Esprey

Chapter 3 Subjectivity and identity in South Africa today - Glenys Lobban

Chapter 4 Psychotherapy and disrupted attachment in the aftermath - Cora Smith

Chapter 5 Traumatic stress, internal and external: What do psychodynamic perspectives have to contribute? - Gill Eagle

Chapter 6 Unconscious meaning and magic: Comparing psychoanalysis and African indigenous healing - Gavin Ivey

Chapter 7 Intimate partner violence in post-apartheid South Africa: Psychoanalytic insights and dilemmas - Tina Sideris

Chapter 8 Serial murder and psychoanalysis in South Africa: Teasing out contextual issues amid intrapsychic phenomena in two case studies - Giada Del Fabbro

Chapter 9 Some psychoanalytic reflections on a project working with HIV orphans and their caregivers - Vanessa Hemp

Chapter 10 Reclaiming genealogy, memory and history: The psychodynamic potential for reparative therapy in contemporary South Africa - Michael O’Loughlin

Afterword: Glenys Lobban and Michael O’Loughlin

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• General officer
• Psychotherapy
• Psychology
• General

Informations

• Publié par: WITS University Press
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781868148035
• Langue: English

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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in SOUTH AFRICA
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in SOUTH AFRICA
contexts, theories and applications
EDITED BY Cora Smith, Glenys Lobban and Michael O Loughlin
Published in South Africa by:
Wits University Press
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Published edition Wits University Press 2013
Compilation Edition editors 2013
Chapters Individual contributors 2013
First published 2013
ISBN 978-1-86814-603-1 (print)
ISBN 978-1-86814-604-8 (digital)
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Edited by Lee Smith
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Contents
Editors
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Introduction Cora Smith
SECTION I: SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTITY
CHAPTER 1 Naming and otherness: South African intersubjective psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the negotiation of racialised histories
Sally Swartz
CHAPTER 2 Raising the colour bar: Exploring issues of race, racism and racialised identities in the South African therapeutic context
Yvette Esprey
CHAPTER 3 Subjectivity and identity in South Africa today
Glenys Lobban
SECTION II: TRAUMATIC STRESS
CHAPTER 4 Psychotherapy and disrupted attachment in the aftermath
Cora Smith
CHAPTER 5 Traumatic stress, internal and external: What do psychodynamic perspectives have to contribute?
Gill Eagle
SECTION III: SOCIAL ISSUES
CHAPTER 6 Unconscious meaning and magic: Comparing psychoanalysis and African indigenous healing
Gavin lvey
CHAPTER 7 Intimate partner violence in post-apartheid South Africa: Psychoanalytic insights and dilemmas
Tina Sideris
CHAPTER 8 Serial murder and psychoanalysis in South Africa: Teasing out contextual issues amid intrapsychic phenomena in two case studies
Giada Del Fabbro
CHAPTER 9 Some psychoanalytic reflections on a project working with HIV orphans and their caregivers
Vanessa Hemp
CHAPTER 10 Reclaiming genealogy, memory and history: The psychodynamic potential for reparative therapy in contemporary South Africa
Michael O Loughlin
Afterword Glenys Lobban and Michael O Loughlin
Index
Editors
CORA SMITH P H D is an Adjunct Professor in the Division of Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, School of Clinical Medicine and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is also the Chief Clinical Psychologist of the Child, Adolescent and Family Unit at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. She has extensive clinical experience in state hospitals and community clinics. She is responsible for the psychological training of Masters Clinical Psychology Interns, Psychiatry Registrars and Child Psychiatry Fellows. She has published a number of articles in journals and chapter collections and has presented many papers in South Africa and at international conferences.
GLENYS LOBBAN P H D is in full-time private practice in New York City. She is a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and an Adjunct Clinical Supervisor, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, City University of New York. She was born in South Africa and also holds a Master s degree in Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She has published a number of articles in psychoanalytic journals and collections in the United States and has presented many papers in the United States and internationally. She wrote three chapters for With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories, edited by Muriel Dimen and published by Routledge in 2011.
MICHAEL O LOUGHLIN P H D, Professor at Adelphi University, New York, is on the faculty of Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies and in the School of Education. He is a clinical and research supervisor in the PhD programme in Clinical Psychology and on the faculty of the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi. He published The Subject of Childhood in 2009 and edited Imagining Children Otherwise: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Childhood Subjectivity with Richard Johnson in 2010 . He is editor of two volumes, Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families and Schools and The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Working with Children s Emotional Lives , both of which will be published in 2013 by Jason Aronson. His interests include the working through of intergenerational and collective trauma, the social origins of psychosis and schizophrenia, and the emotional lives of children. He is currently Co-Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society and Treasurer of the Joint Psychoanalytic Conference. He is a research affiliate at Austen Riggs Center, where he conducts research on psychosis in collaboration with Marilyn Charles.
Contributors
GIADA DEL FABBRO PhD is the Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Child, Adolescent and Family Unit, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She also holds an MSc in Forensic Psychology from the University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom. She has several publications in the field of forensic psychology as well as in the area of clinical psychology.
GILL EAGLE PhD is a Full Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and previous Head of the Department of Psychology. She sits on several university committees. She has focused her academic and research work in the two fields of trauma studies and masculinity studies and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in these areas. She co-edited Psychopathology and Social Prejudice (2002) and co-authored Traumatic Stress in South Africa (2010). She is particularly interested in the application of psychoanalytic ideas to socio-political issues in South Africa.
YVETTE ESPREY is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds Master s degrees in Industrial and Clinical Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She previously held the position of Head Psychologist at Tara H Moross Psychiatric Hospital, and has worked as a lecturer at the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand. She has specific interests in psychoanalytic theory, borderline personality disorders, trauma, and the intersection of race and psychotherapy. She teaches both locally and overseas, and has presented numerous papers at local and international conferences.
VANESSA HEMP MA is currently in private practice in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to this, as the Senior Clinical Psychologist at Tara H Moross Psychiatric Hospital she was responsible for training Clinical Psychology Interns. She initiated and coordinated the HIV/AIDS orphans group psychotherapy outreach programme at Tara-Alex Eastbrook Clinic.
GAVIN IVEY PhD is an Associate Professor and the coordinator of the PhD Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the current editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa . He is a member of the Institute for Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapy, where he runs seminars on WR Bion s contribution to psychoanalysis. He has published papers on psychoanalytic theory and therapy in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis , British Journal of Psychotherapy , British Journal of Medical Psychology , American Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training.
TINA SIDERIS PhD is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has combined theoretical work, field research, clinical practice and activism in work on gender-related violence in South Africa. She was a founding member in 1994 of Masisukumeni Women s Crisis Centre in Mpumalanga province of South Africa, which provides counselling and legal services to women and children who have survived rape and domestic violence. She has consulted to organisations in South Africa, Mozambique and Denmark on issues related to violence, trauma, inter-organisational collaboration and organisational development. She has presented papers at local and international conferences and published articles in edited collections and in peer reviewed journals, including AGENDA , African Studies , Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society .
SALLY SWARTZ PhD is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department of the University of Cape Town. She also practises psychotherapy. She is currently the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town. She was formerly the Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. She has published widely in the areas of psychotherapy and the history of psychiatry in South Africa. She has a particular interest in the challenges of working as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in South Africa, and her work explores the effects of race, class and gender divides on experiences of trauma and healing.
Acknowledgements
The editors would like to thank all the contributors to this book who have shared their work and insights so generously.
We would also like to acknowledge our appreciation to Professor Ahmed Wadee for his unfailing support and generous financial assistance towards the publication of this book from the Wadee Trust. In addition we are grateful for the financial support from the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Thanks are also due to the staff of Wits University Press for their guidance and assistance.
We are also indebted to Lisa Aarons Platt for her assistance with the graphic design of the cover.
Finally we would