Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa presents a unique insight into psychoanalytic practice with urban populations in Eastern Africa.
Barbara Saegesser describes her psychoanalytic work in different East African locations and in a wide range of contexts. Each chapter considers a particular context, from work in general hospitals and psychiatric hospitals and with children in orphanages, to maternity wards with women who have been subjected to genital mutilation. Saegesser reflects on questions of gender, religion and working across cultures throughout, and considers the benefits of this approach for people who have not previously encountered psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists looking to learn more about working with people in complex, challenging or dangerous situations, across cultures, and in areas where psychoanalysis is not at all known.
By:
Barbara Saegesser
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781032588117
ISBN 10: 103258811X
Series: IPA in the Community
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 15 November 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Summary to 1: Personal Introduction 1. Personal Introduction 1.1 Psychoanalytic work in East African cities Summary to 2: Psychoanalytical field work in East African cities. 2. Psychoanalytic Fieldwork in East African Cities Summary to 3: Drop-in and Home for Street boys 3. Drop-in and Home for Street boys Summary to 4: Parenthood in East African cities 4. Parenthood in East African Cities Summary to 5: School system in East African cities and rural areas 5. School systems and school visits in East African cities and rural areas Summary to 6 6. The Baby and the child without a mother Summary to 7 7. Babies with their mothers Summary to 8 8. Sex/Gender differences Summary to 9 9. The Quran, children’s games, and creative playing in the Sands of El-Alamein Summary to 10 10. Concepts and treatments for psychosomatic patients in the East African environment 1) Summary to 11 11. Free ambulatory choice of patients in the big room of female station Summary to 12 12. What is it that initiates inner und and outer psychic change, what initiates a transformation process?
Barbara Saegesser is a training analyst with the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Psychoanalyse – SGPsa) and also with the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She was president of the commission treating ethical problems in the Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis among many other positions and has worked in East Africa since 2005 in a wide range of contexts, including orphanages, shelters, psychiatric hospitals and maternity wards.