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How green is my politics? Cock, J and Koch, E (eds) (1991) Going green: People, politics and the environment in South Africa. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
No full textGoing Green sets itself out to inform its readers about some of the most urgent environmental issues within the political framework of South Africa, both historically and at present. The editors, Jacklyn Cock and Eddie Koch and seventeen other contributors ranging from ecologists, through journalists to trade unionists have collectively addressed ecological/environmental problems facing South Africa, and attempted to show the atrocious damage done to our environment and in particular as a result of apartheid politics. There are seventeen chapters and ten profiles on some of the more active people within South Africa's green movement. Each page has bold type quotes extracted from the text and highlighting some of the more startling perspectives in each chapter. Profiles are brief but informative and serve to introduce readers to some of the people who have contributed to the green movement in South Africa. Selected references for each chapter follow at the end of the book
The making of clinical psychology: Reisman J (1991) A history of clinical psychology. New York: Hemisphere (1971).
No full textJohn Reisman's A history of clinical psychology offers some informative lessons for clinical psychology in South Africa in this time of re-evaluation and reconstruction. This is the second edition of a book originally published 20 years ago, and it sets out to document the major developments in psychological concepts, assessment and therapy techniques and professional activity and structure as they have occurred chronologically. It is very much a North American book whose focus is on the development of clinical psychology in the U.S.A. but the many important theoretical developments that occurred in Europe are also thoroughly covered
Interviewing The PsySSA President
No full textRachel Prinsloo, the first President of the new Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA), talks to Anna Strebel
Psychology for beginners! Louw, DA P & Edwards, DJ A (eds) (1993) Psychology: An introduction for students in southern Africa. Johannesburg: Lexicon.
No full textAs a Psychology 1 lecturer of perhaps too many years, I welcomed the news that an introductory textbook specifically targeted at southern African students, was available. After having to rely on American textbooks for several years, most Psychology 1 lecturers would wholeheartedly support the opening lines in the Preface that "there is a serious need for a new first-year university textbook in psychology written and produced in southern Africa." But what advantages are the users offered over and above being written and produced in southern Africa? Key issues for both teachers and students are: the contextualization of the content, accessibility of language, and the price
Africanisation of Psychology: Identities and Continents
No full textThe psychologies of North America and Europe have long dominated African academies. The relevance of this knowledge for people of African origin, has been challenged in arguments for the Africanisation of the discipline. A common argument is that an understanding of African epistemologies is necessary for the development of psychological knowledge appropriate to the continent. Inherent in this position, but usually unrecognised, is a challenge to the external validity of knowledge claims developed outside the conditions which construct mentality in Africa. Also evident is a tendency to totalise African experience and mentality. Despite some debate, the idea of Africanisation in psychology has not been systematically developed. The current paper attempts to take the discussion forward. Following a discussion of ways in which the Africanisation of the discipline has been considered, I suggest that is necessary to distinguish between the Africanisation of psychological knowtedge, and the appropriate application of modern psychological theory and research in African contexts. The former suggests a challenge to the professional psychologies of Europe and the United States, and in some versions, it may imply the adoption of the traditional ethnopsychologies of Africa. The latter position leaves these claims largely intact while developing eco-culturally sensitive interventions. This contribution argues that an African psychology should draw on both local and external knowledge systems. But in wishing to call itself a psychology it needs to be guided by the conventions for psychological activity which exist in the various corners of the discipline
Challenging the status quo! Prilleltensky, I (1994) The morals and politics of psychology: Psychological discourse and the status quo. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. 283 pages.
No full textPrilleltensky's book provides a penetrating and challenging critical analysis of psychology's role in maintaining the status quo. He presents an incisive account of psychology's current preoccupation with individuals, and its failure to render any significant commentary on the social implications of psychological theory and practice. "However innocent, this neglect results in a very consequential moral illiteracy ..." (p1)
Watch out, psychoanalysis is everywhere! Parker, I (1997) Psychoanalytic culture: Psychoanalytic discourse in Western society. London: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-7619-5643-3 pbk. 290 pages.
No full textFreud is reputed to have said to Jung on their journey to the USA - Freud had been invited by Stanley Clark to lecture at Stanford University - that little did they (the Americans) know it, but they (he and Jung - psychoanalysts) were bringing them the plague. Freud's well-known sarcasm and cynicism were often prescient in ways he would have been surprised by. Maybe the metaphor for today would more appropriately be "nuclear fallout", "radioactivity", not because I think psychoanalysis is this lethal or potent, but because it is everywhere and yet we can't see it, smell it, or even hear it! This in part seems to be 'What Ian Parker is suggesting about psychoanalysis's insertion into the cultural discourse of western society. It is a case of: "Watch out, psychoanalysis is everywhere!
Truth, and the little red light: Krog, A (1998) Country of my skull. Johannesburg: Random House ISBN 0-958-41951-5 pbk. viii + 286 pages
No full textAntjie Krog's book on her "close encounters" with the TRC has received a lot of attention. I would guess that it still is the most talked about, and written about, text on the TRC. What is it in this text that has attracted so much interest and critical debate? Are some of the answers to this question located in the multiple identities of its author? Afrikaner; white woman; (radio) journalist; renowned poet Surely so, and yet it is the complex interaction of these identities that mark Krog's reflections on the TRC
Discourse method - ideas or spanners! Wetherell, M, Taylor, S, & Yates, S J (eds) (2001) Discourse as data: A guide for analysis. London: Sage. ISBN: 0761971580. 344 pages.
No full textA STATE OF MIND: DOMINATION, COERCION AND ABUSE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MENTAL HEALTH CARE ACT
No full textThis paper examines the South African Mental Health Care Act, focussing on its ideological and theoretical underpinnings. It argues that the Act is flawed not only through clear textual inconsistencies, but further, as a consequence of its view of mental illness resting on contestable psychiatric dogma. Specifically, the disease model of mental illness reproduced in the policy allows the desires, thoughts and behaviours of psychiatric patients to be entirely delegitimised, and replaced with the arbitrary system favoured by the psychiatric institution. It will further be argued that it is the very power of the legislative-psychiatric complex that allows the codes of conduct prescribed by the discipline of psychiatry lo be accepted as an objectively normative way of being, further masking the tenuous nature of the truth claims psychiatry makes about human cognition and behaviour