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Forum Piece:
A relational psychoanalytic ‘reading’ of reading groups: A case study in ongoing professional development
Lisa Rae Padfield
Articles:
Navigating murky waters: Black South African supervisees reflecting on finding voice and space in psychotherapy supervision
Thabiso Ramohlola and Carol Long
Book review:
Review of Parenting psychoanalysed: Letters to a parent edited by Andy Cohen
Ntshediseng Tlooko
Forum Piece:
South African launch of The revised standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud: Revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms
Edited transcript
Articles:
‘It’s quite scary being a father in South Africa’: An exploration of defensive victimhood among noninvolved Black South African fathers
Hopolang Matee and Katherine Bain
The implications of archive destruction for South Africa’s democracy and nation-building: Freud, Derrida and Foucault
Kgamadi Kometsi
Book review:
Psychoanalysis and colonialism: A contemporary introduction by Sally Swartz
Thembelihle Mashigo
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
Forum:
Rather long musings around challenges facing psychoanalytic thinking in South Africa and globally – today in 2023
Jacki Watts
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
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
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
Forum paper:
The Johannesburg Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Group: A short history
Tony Hamburger
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
‘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
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
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
#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
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
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
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
Book review:
Forced endings in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis: Attachment and loss in retirement
Wendy Cain
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
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
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
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
Words, interpretation and setting: Changing forms of the talking cure
Sally Swartz
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
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
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)
‘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
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)
‘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)
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)
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)
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)
‘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
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
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
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