Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa

Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa presents a unique insight into psychoanalytic practice with urban populations in Eastern Africa.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Saegesser
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032588094
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258809-4
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: IPA in the Community
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, East Africa, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, East Africa;Psychoanalytic;Gender;Psychosomatic;IPA