1st Edition

Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa

By Barbara Saegesser Copyright 2025
142 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

142 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

142 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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?

Biography

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.