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Assessment of children for brief psychodynamic psychotherapy : training implications

Author: Levy, Lisa-Ann Date: 1991 The aim of this study is to develop a framework for the assessment of children for short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, with a particular emphasis on the training of child therapists. For this purpose the literature on brief child psychotherapy ... Read more
"The baby will grow" : a poststructuralist and psychodynamic analysis of a community psychology intervention

Author: Long, Carol Date: 1999 Progressive South African psychologists have recognised the need for community approaches in South Africa which maximise access to psychological intervention and which value politically aware psychological practice. Few extended analyses of ... Read more
Battered and bruised : a case study illustrating the complex nature of a woman's separation from her physically abusive husband

Author: Lewis, Graeme Date: 2002 This research study employed the single case-study method with the aim of illustrating the complex nature of a woman's separation from her physically abusive husband. An alternative framework for analysis is proposed, which incorporates ... Read more
Charting domains of silence - a description of a process of feminist training addressing the rape of men in prison

Author: Woodin, Nicola Date: 2002 The rape of adult males is a subject in need of attention. The rape of men within South African prisons particularly, has been inadequately researched and documented. Investigation is necessary in order to challenge myths which serve to ... Read more
Colonialism and the production of psychiatric knowledge in the Cape, 1891-1920

Author: Swartz, Sally Date: 1996 This dissertation describes the evolution of psychiatric practice in the Cape during period 1891-1920, following the appointment of the colony's first Inspector of Asylums. It was a time during which legal reform and social and economic change ... Read more
Community-clinical psychological consultation with teachers in an "African" lower primary school : discourses and future directions

Author: Wood, Rosemary Jane Date: 1989 Following the action research tradition, a series of four workshops was conducted with 14 - 20 teachers at Songeze Lower Primary School in Guguletu. The workshops were in response to a preceding 'fact-finding' study as to the teachers' ... Read more
The constellation of the archetypal feminine : a psychic process essential to psychodynamic psychotherapy

Author: Blow, Tracy Jacqueline Date: 1994 The aim of this study is to explore and demonstrate the necessity for a psychodynamic psychotherapy which embodies and thus evokes the qualities of the Archetypal Feminine. C.G. Jung's concept of the coniunctio, or union of psychic opposites, ... Read more
The construction of shame in feminist reflexive practice and its manifestations in a research relationship

Author: Womersley, Gail Date: 2010 Despite the psychically toxic nature of shame, and the way in which it manifests so acutely within intersubjective spaces, it has historically been under-researched and under-theorised. However, a burgeoning of literature in recent years has ... Read more
Dancing the Other in South Africa

Author: Samuel, Gerard M Date: 2016 At the centre of discourse of Dance in South Africa is the notion of Other. The form and approach in Contemporary Dance in South Africa in the 21st century has been shaped by cultural forces such as apartheid and colonialism. This thesis sets ... Read more
A description of the process of working intersubjectively with an insecurely attached young adolescent : a case study

Author: Short, Sotirios Date: 2010 The dissertation presents clinical case material from a psychodynamic therapy with a 12 year-old boy. He presents with minor conduct disturbance, difficulty in affective expression and withdrawal in the context of a dysfunctional family system. ... Read more
Different stories : multicultural issues in the training of clinical psychologists

Author: Ahrends, Ilse Date: 1995 Despite an ever-growing body of international literature on multicultural counselling or psychotherapy, comparatively little has been written on multicultural counselling in South Africa, or the need to train South African clinical psychologists ... Read more
Divorce in the Muslim community of the Western Cape : a demographic study of 600 divorce records at the Muslim Judicial Council and National Ulama Council between 1994 and 1999

Author: Toefy, Mogamat Yoesrie Date: 2002 This thesis examines marital discord and dissolution within the Muslim community in the Western Cape. The writer contends that the rising incidence of divorce in a community may indicate underlying social upheaval especially within its family ... Read more
An ethnographic and socio-semantic analysis of lexis among working-class Afrikaans-speaking coloured adolescent and young adult males in the Cape Peninsula, 1963-1990

Author: Stone, Gerald Leslie Date: 1991 The study is an investigation into the distinctive, predominantly Afrikaans lexis of adolescent and young adult working-class coloured males in the Cape Peninsula, acquired in social anthropological, psychosocial and sociolinguistic research ... Read more
Evaluating the role of Kinesiology, as an adjunct therapy, in the management of patients with Crohn's disease

Author: Jogee, Rasheda Date: 2002 This randomized controlled experimental study was designed to determine whether Kinesiology, as an adjunct to medical therapy, would improve the management of patients with Crohn's disease. One hundred and fifty consecutive Crohn's disease ... Read more
Examining illness narratives in chronic fatigue and immune deficiency syndrome : a mindbody perspective

Author: Gray, Jeniffer Date: 2001 A semi-structured interview was used to obtain illness narrative data from 10 Chronic Fatigue and Immune Deficiency Syndrom (CFIDS) patients. A qualitative narrative analysis was completed and the findings were discussed in relation to the ... Read more
The Expansion and elaboration of the category personality disorders in South Africa 1948-1982

Author: Laurenson, Helen Date: 2009 This archival study tracks the expansion and elaboration of the category personality disorders in South Africa from 1948 to 1982. Valkenberg Hospital patient files, official documents and professional publications are triangulated with ... Read more
The exploration of elective Caesarian sections as a choice around childbirth

Author: Lappeman, Maura Date: 2011 A growing number of women in the private health sector are choosing to have elective caesareans in South Africa. This dissertation explores the motivations influencing women who choose an elective caesarean section (CS) for non-health reasons. ... Read more
An exploratory study : the family's experience of the initial interview at the Child Guidance Clinic

Author: Naicker, Allengary Date: 2005 This project was an evaluation of the initial interview as experienced by a sample of six families who utilised the services of the CGC in 2003. Families were given a semi-structured interview schedule which focussed on a number of common ... Read more
Exploring clinicians' experiences of working with people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder

Author: Steingold, Lauren Date: 2010 This study uses an explorative, qualitative design to sketch an understanding of clinicians’ experiences of working with BPD, including their instrumental knowledge of the disorder, their personal experiences of working with people diagnosed ... Read more
Exploring paediatric burns : narrative accounts from caregivers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town

Author: Yako, Jon Piko Wycliffe Date: 2005 Studies conducted in the area of burns have recently begun to document the psychological implications of the condition. Burn survivors are often reported to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and social withdrawal. ... Read more

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