Articles

Volume 32

Article:

Paternal function, masculinity and the introduction of the third: The mind of the analyst in clinical practice
Rui Aragão Oliveira

Response paper:

Response to Rui Aragão's 'Paternal function, masculinity and the introduction of the third: The mind of the analyst in clinical practice'
Jennifer Allen

Playing with 'the father' in memory and desire: Exilic thirdness in transitional space
Thomas Burkhalter

Through the mother’s eyes: A crochet of thoughts on the maternal and paternal
Yvette Esprey

Book review:

Unlocking the nature of human aggression: A psychoanalytic and neuroscientific approach by Adrian Perkel
James van der Walt

Volume 31

Forum:

Rather long musings around challenges facing psychoanalytic thinking in South Africa and globally – today in 2023
Jacki Watts

Exploring countertransference in psychoanalytic research: Reflecting on being a researcher, a psychotherapist, a mother and a human being in a neonatal high care unit
Nicole Canin

Language use dynamics as portal into the ‘psychotic organisation’
Aden-Paul Flotman

Book review:

Catastrophic grief, trauma and resilience in child concentration camp survivors - A retrospective view of their Holocaust experiences by Tracey Rori Farber, Gillian Eagle and Cora Smith
Diana Schmukler

Volume 30

Forum:

The Johannesburg Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Group: A long history
Irene Chait, Natalie Gordon, Joan Schön and Lesley Caplan

Perversion as act, gaze and structure
Derek Hook

Beyond the clinical case study: Using hermeneutic phenomenology to expand the methodological boundaries of psychoanalytic research
Ruby Patel and Tanya Graham

Book review:

Children in mind by Jenny Perkel
Jo Hamilton

Volume 29

Challenges in conceptualising ‘cultural countertransference’: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of therapist’s experiences
Ashley Van Heerden and Duncan Cartwright

Hide and seek: Challenges in holding a deprived young adolescent in therapy
Tanja Smuts

‘Twos, transitions and the dark’: An adopted boy and therapist’s struggle to find the ‘therapy boat’ and ‘oars’ to navigate and reconstruct his early history
Katharine Frost

Forum paper:

The Johannesburg Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Group: A short history
Tony Hamburger

Volume 29

Creative contribution:

Getting out
Donald Moss

First commentary on creative contribution:

Getting out: Revisiting the hidden injuries of class
Wahbie Long

Second commentary on creative contribution:

Getting out, remaining stuck
Hugo Canham

The ‘good’ mother and the thriving, surviving baby’s body: A psychosocial analysis
Siobhán Kinahan Sweeney and Lisa Saville Young

Maternal failure: Exploring the theoretical intersections of containment and reflective functioning
Alexa Young and Tanya Graham

Rethinking the fatherhood trilogy: Towards a formulation of the fatherhood constellation
Sarah Berman

Sharpening the senses: White men and otherness in the time of Corona
Thomas Burkhalter

Book review:

Nation on the couch: Inside South Africa’s mind by Wahbie Long
Kgamadi Kometsi

Volume 28

‘How can you say that the very thing that made you should be abolished?’: A teacher’s repetition of childhood trauma of corporal punishment
Simangele Mayisela

Self-hatred disguised in racial hatred of another
Sharon Sibanda

Cancer, persecution and ordeal
Jean Pierre Mambou Nouemssi, Nathalie Dumet and Brigitte Blanquet

Book review:

Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis: New perspectives on race, gender, and sexuality by Max Belkin and Cleonie White (Eds)
Gillian Eagle

Volume 27

Forum - Resilience in a changing South Africa: The Johannesburg Parent and Child Counselling Services’ 75 years of caring
Claudine Ribeiro and Irene Chait

Talk of whiteness: A psychosocial analysis of constructions of race amongst white novice clinical psychologists in South Africa
Brink Kennedy and Lisa Saville-Young

‘Terrible twos: Developing the capacity to think and feel in the analytic field
Duncan Cartwright

In search of the missing pieces of mind
Jenny Perkel

Mitigating risks for children in institutional care: A case study
Lynne Goldschmidt

Book review:

Elements of counselling: A practitioner’s handbook by Joan Schön, Lauren Gower and Victor Kotze (Third Edition)
Phethile Zitha

Volume 26

Forum - Conferences as trauma-specific mentalising spaces: 2018 SAPC Couch and Country Conference
Jenny Perkel and Katherine Bain

Daughters and absent fathers: Triumph, loss and pain
Gloria Njeri Kamau and Nick Davies

Catastrophic grief and associated defences in elderly child Holocaust survivors
Tracey Farber, Cora Smith and Gillian Eagle

Book review:

Group Therapy: A Group Analytic Approach by Nick Barwick and Martin Weegman
Charity Mkone

Volume 26

#PsychoanalysisAndCellphones
Wendy Cain

Psychotherapy in the age of technology: The ethical challenges of online treatments for South African clinicians
Yael Kadish, Joan Schön, Julie Green, Sheri Hanson and Julia Kuhn

Raids on the inarticulate: A group’s engagement with race
Yvette Esprey, with Hilda Croxford, Pam Durrant, Gillian Eagle, Kgamadi Kometsi, Julia Kuhn, Malose Langa, Itumeleng Mamabolo, Thembi Mashigo, Saudah Masson, Zamo Mbele, Leanne Stillerman and Phethile Zitha

Hide-and-seek with siblings: A theoretical exploration of siblings in psychoanalysis
Claire Hart

Volume 25

A Bionian formulation of shame: The terror of becoming one’s self
Duncan Cartwright

When a therapist’s therapy implodes: Relational reflections on a case of terminal impasse
Helen Laurenson

On being human: The power of specificity in psychotherapy in the South African context
Mary Hartley & Lou-Marie Kruger

Book review:

Field theory in child and adolescent psychoanalysis: Understanding and reacting to unexpected developments, by Elena Molinari
Katherine Bain

Volume 25

Flying blind in the psychotic storm
Nardus Saayman

Ethical emotional encounters: Contemplating challenges in psychoanalytically informed research
Clare Harvey

Alienation: A new orienting principle for psychotherapists in South Africa 
Wahbie Long

Book review:

Apartheid and the making of a Black psychologist by Chabani Manganyi
Zamo Mbele

Volume 24

The psychoanalytic petticoats of a Rogerian group process
Lisa Padfield

When virtuous (‘deugsame') women flee: A reflection on dread and flight in group therapy in one South African setting
Lou-Mari Kruger

Expanding the terrain of psychoanalytic practice to diverse group settings in South Africa: Possibilities, challenges and future directions
Jason Bantjes

Book review:

Forced endings in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis: Attachment and loss in retirement
Wendy Cain

Volume 24

The reflective function in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Jean-Philippe Arzul and Duncan Cartwright

Trauma and reparation: Adult daughters’ meaning-making of their relationships with their domestically violent fathers
Carla Durbach and Katherine Bain

Dream interpretation in theory: Drawing on the contributions of Freud, Jung, and the Kleinians
Joan Schön

Reaching across the divide: Considering the challenges for intercultural therapeutic dyads embedded in previously oppressive social contexts 
Yael Adira Kadish

Volume 23

Pathological organisations and psychic encapsulation in eating disorders: A contemporary consideration
Yael Kadish

Colliding worlds: Brief dynamic therapy from a self psychology perspective
Liesha Davies

The masculinity of male psychotherapists: Towards reflexive praxis
Thomas Burkhalter and Gillian Eagle

Forum:

‘The Bodies and Minds of Babies in Relationship’: Psychoanalytic contributions to Johannesburg’s first infant mental health conference
Katherine Bain

Volume 23

Finding a place for working with children in South African communities
David Hadley

Missing in action: Reflections on the employment of the paternal function in therapeutic practice
Nick Davies

Book review:

The Dark Side of the Womb: Pregnancy, Parenting and Persecutory Anxieties, by Joan Raphael-Leff London: Anna Freud Centre, 2015. ISBN 978-0-954-93194-0

Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century, by Sally Swartz University of Cape Town Press, 2015. ISBN-10 1775820823 and ISBN-13 978-1775820826

Volume 22

Providing a containing space for unbearable feelings
Rika van den Berg

The elusive paternal function: Clinicians' perspectives
Nick Davies

Psychoanalytic training in South Africa: Attending to the marginalia
Lisa Saville Young

Forum:

Obituary: Rika van den Berg (1956-2014)

Deborah Bidoli, Louise Frenkel, Mireille Landman, Di Nel, Micky Stern and Leslie Swartz

Volume 22

Words, interpretation and setting: Changing forms of the talking cure
Sally Swartz

Training of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in contemporary South Africa: Theoretical dilemmas, clinical debates and diverse contexts
Cora Smith

Forum:

Some considerations of the role of food in community work
Trevor Lubbe

Psychoanalysis and primary health care
Astrid Berg

Couple work in South Africa: A historical overview from Cape Town
Andrea Hill and Adrian Perkel

Trauma, reconciliation, embodiment: An account of the 9th and 10th SAPI conferences [Franschhoek, February, 2013; February 2014]
Joan Raphael-Leff

Book Review:

Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive|: Towards a Psychosocial Praxis edited by Garth Stevens, Norman Duncan and Derek Hook
Allengary Naicker

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa: Contexts, Theories and Application edited by Cora Smith, Glenys Lobban and Michael O'Loughlin - Lou-Marié Kruger

Volume 21

The long road home
Valerie Sinason

Till death-drive us apart: Associating injury and aggression in the couple
Adrian Perkel

Tri-bar mental structure in masochistic perversion
Clinton Michael van der Walt (University of the Witwatersrand) /Carol Long (University of the Witwatersrand)

Clinical features of the container function
Duncan Cartwright (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Psychoanalytic work on a cancer teenage ward
Barbara Segal

Volume 21

Re-embodying the analyst
Karen Gubb (University of the Witwatersrand)

Hamlet – The lonely only and his siblings
Juliet Mitchell (University of Cambridge, University College, London University)

Reframing the frame: Reflections of a community service psychologist
Lisa Padfield (Private practice)

The farthest reaches
Frances Williams (Sharon Sibanda)

Volume 20

‘Vrot kolletjies’: Shame, silence and enactment in psychotherapy with impoverished clients
Lou-Marié Kruger (University of Stellenbosch)

Thinking about contextual deprivation in mother-infant work in South Africa
Katharine Frost (Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust) / Melanie Esterhuizen (Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust) / Katherine Bain (University of the Witwatersrand) / Linda Rosenbaum (Private Practice)

Reflections on psychoanalytic writing
Carol Long

Volume 20

The development of psychoanalytic understandings of male homosexuality: Moving beyond pathology
Gareth Mitchell (University of the Witwatersrand)

‘The mothers have mercy for me’: Change in parent-infant relationships through group psychotherapy
Katherine Bain (University of the Witwatersrand) /  Linda Rosenbaum (Private Practice) / Katharine Frost (Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust) / Melanie Esterhuizen (Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust)

‘My baby cries for nothing’: Mentalisation challenges in the face of negative countertransference when working with mothers who struggle to hold their babies in mind
Linda Rosenbaum (Private Practice) / Katherine Bain (University of the Witwatersrand) / Melanie Esterhuizen (Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust) / Katharine Frost (Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust)

Volume 19

‘Hold my hand, I’m dying’: Identification in attachment and melancholia
Katherine Bain (University of the Witwatersrand)

A group-analytic formulation of an incident of disruptive behaviour in a school
Jason Bantjes (University of Stellenbosch)

Dissociation and restoration in trauma survivors and their children
Bruce Bradfield (University of Cape Town)

Volume 19

The prosthetic third in violent, psychotic, male patients
Clinton Michael van der Walt (University of the Witwatersrand)
* Winner: PPSA Mervin Glasser Postgraduate Student Prize

A phenomenological perspective on the unconscious
Jacki Watts (University of the Witwatersrand)

Psychoanalysis, siblings and the social group
Juliet Mitchell (University College London)

Volume 18

The launch of the South African Psychoanalytic Confederation: A witness report
Elda Storck

The establishment of an accredited psychoanalytic training institute in South Africa
Mark Solms

Writing for special needs: The importance of the real relationship
Thomas Burkhalter

Reflections on society as borderline mother
Karen Gubb

A self psychology perspective on the formulation and treatment of psychopathology in children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Mariska Pienaar and Christopher D. Molteno

Book Review - Growing old: A journey of self-discovery, Danielle Quinodoz, translated by David Alcorn. London and New York: Routledge, 2010
Julie Green (Johannesburg)

Book Review - Relational trauma in infancy: Psychoanalytic, attachment and neuropsychological contributions to parent-infant psychotherapy, T. Baradon (Ed.). London & New York: Routledge, 2010.
Dean Kilian (Johannesburg)

Volume 18

Exploring Positive Countertransference in Psychotherapy with Psychotic Patients
Patrick Connolly (University of the Witwatersrand) / Wendy Cain (University of the Witwatersrand)

The Sense of Bodily Symptoms
Karen Gubb (University of the Witwatersrand)

Healthy Maternal Ambivalence
Joan Raphael-Leff

Forum: Commentary on ‘Writing for Special Needs: The Importance of the Real Relationship’ by Thomas Burkhalter
Valerie Sinason (Clinic for Dissociative Studies, London)

Forum: Inspiring Psychoanalytic Writing Apprehending Donald Meltzer Neil Maizels

Book Review - The Adolescent Storm: A Handbook for Parents, Meg Fargher and Helen Dooley. Johannesburg: Penguin, 2010. ISBN 978-0-1430-2492-7.
Carol Long (University of the Witwatersrand)

Book Review - Elements of Counselling: A Handbook for Counsellors in Southern Africa (revised edition), Joan Schön, Lauren Gower and Victor Kotze. Westhoven: Sophiatown Community Psychological Services, 2010. ISBN 978-0-620-46606-6.
Esther Price (University of the Witwatersrand)

Book Review - Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion’s ‘Container Model’ in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, by Duncan Cartwright. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 978-1-58391-879-1.
Gavin Ivey (University of the Witwatersrand)

Volume 17

‘Linking the breaks’: containing the psychotherapists responding to the 2008 Xenophobic Crisis
Astrid Berg, Judy Davies, Kathleen Hanley, Andrea Hill, Jenny Perkel, Diane Sandler and Jane van der Riet

The couple as social microcosm: Some reflections on the impact of loss and difference on reparation in South Africa today
Andrea Hill and Sylvia Poss

Ghosts, aliens and things that go bump in the night: parent- child psychotherapy in relation to childhood sleep difficulties
Nicola Dugmore

Special Issue

Not knowing: Towards an ethics for employing psychoanalysis in psychosocial research
Lisa Saville Young

Ethics in tension: Dilemmas for clinicians conducting sensitive research
Carol Long and Gillian Eagle

The ethical container: Different dimensions informing ethical action
Lulu Bräsler

Exploring the ethical principle of social responsibility and other ethical issues in the context of the mental health professionals’ response to xenophobic violence in Cape Town
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Volume 16

Think in a Rectal Container
Arlene Joffe

Countertransference Reactions in Psychotherapy Group Work with HIV Positive Children
Julia Kuhn

Participators, Reciprocators and Renouncers:2 Paternal Orientations in the 21st Century
Joan Raphael-Leff

Volume 16

Three forms of container pathology: towards a classification
Arlene Joffe

The inner worlds of anorexia and bulimia: a comparative exploration of internal object relations in eating disordered women
Lihie Gilhar and Gavin Ivey

Eggs between women – emotional aspects of egg donation in reproductive technology
Joan Raphael-Leff

Volume 15

Hate in the phallic container
Carol Long

Envy and Jealousy in the supervisory triad
Gavin Ivey

The Tavistock Clinic short course for work with under-fives: the model and its applicability for private practitioners in South Africa
Nicola Dugmore

Volume 15

Reading psychoanalysis in the diaspora: South African psychoanalytic psychotherapists’ struggles with voice
Sally Swartz

How do you know? The centrality of Bion’s container/contained concept in developing the capacity to think and to know
Tanya Wilson

The couple and its instincts
Adrian Perkel