@article{749419,
      recid = {749419},
      author = {Smith, Cora, and Lobban, Glenys, and O'Loughlin, Michael,},
      title = {Psychodynamic psychotherapy in South Africa contexts,  theories and applications / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (308 pages)},
      abstract = {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 relevant application.   Psychoanalysis as a long term modality is inaccessible to  the average South African. In this book the authors  describe how psychoanalytically orientated or psychodynamic  psychotherapy can be practiced as a short-term endeavour  and applied to contemporary issues facing the country.  Psychodynamic work is currently undertaken by clinical  psychologists, therapists, clinicians, trainers, teachers,  clinical supervisors, consultants and researchers working  in university settings, state hospitals, community  projects, private practice and research. The debates,  clinical issues, therapeutic practice and nature of  research covered in the book are widely representative of  the work being done in the country.  The need for shorter  term therapy models and evidence-based interventions is as  acute in global practice as it is locally. The lessons  learned in South Africa have broader implications for  international practitioners, and the authors stress the  potential inherent in psychoanalytic theory and technique  to tackle the complex problems faced in all places and  settings characterised by increasing globalisation and  dislocation.  The book is structured in three main  sections. The first introduces contemporary issues about  race, identity, disavowal and otherness viewed within an  intersubejctive theoretical frame. The second section deals  broadly with psychodynamic perspectives in trauma, the  impact of violence on attachment, family function and  individual survival, and the psychotherapeutic dilemmas  these conditions raise for psychodynamically orientated  therapists. The third section deals with a range of highly  relevant social issues, including the complex relationship  between psychoanalysis and traditional healing, the  politics and psychodynamics of gendered violence, the  challenge of running psychodynamic group therapy community  projects with South African AIDS orphans, the  intergenerational and psychodynamic processes in the  proliferation of serial murder in post-apartheid South  Africa and the psychodynamic potential for reparative  therapy in contemporary South Africa.  Psychodynamic  Psychotherapy in South Africa is aimed at local and  international practitioners and students, while  non-specialist readers will find the text informative and  accessible.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/749419},
}