Identity and Ethnic Relations in Africa

List of contents

1. Toward a Relevant Psychology 2. Social Science in Africa: Problems and Prospects 3. Psychotherapy and Culture: A Critical View 4. Cultural Fragmentation and Mental Distress 5. Ethnic Identity: A Psychoanalytic Critique 6. The Emotional Damage of Apartheid: A Psychoanalytic View 7. Apartheid’s Children: The Emotional Costs 8. Quasi-Family, Quasi-Psychotherapy: Six Years of Living Together, Black and White, in South Africa 9. After the War is Over: Truth and Reconciliation? Reflections from South Africa.

Summary

Published in 1998, this text asserts that psychologists and sociologists have a professional and personal responsibility to further the "cure" of the damage done by governments.

Product details

• Authors: Leonard Bloom, Bloom Leonard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138321830
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32183-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought