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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.
List of contents
1. Psychoanalytic Work in East African Cities 2. Psychoanalytic Fieldwork in East African Cities 3. Drop-in and Home for Street Boys 4. Parenthood in East African Cities 5. School Systems and School Visits in East African Cities and Rural Areas 6. The Baby and the Child Without a Mother 7. Babies With Their Mothers 8. Sex/Gender Differences 9. The Quran, Children's Games and Creative Playing in the Sands of El-Alamein 10. Concepts and Treatments for Psychosomatic Patients in the East African Environment 11. Free Ambulatory Choice of Patients in the Main Room of the Women's Station 12. What is it that Initiates Inner and Outer Psychic Change? What Initiates a Transformation Process?
About the author
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.
Summary
Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa presents a unique insight into psychoanalytic practice with urban populations in Eastern Africa.
