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 hospitals, in psychiatric hospitals and with children in orphanages to maternity wards with women who have been submitted to genital mutilation. Saegesser also reflects on questions of gender, religion and working across cultures throughout, and considers the benefits of this approach for people who haven’t 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 and challenging, also dangerous situations, across cultures, and in areas where psychoanalysis is not at all known.
Summary to 1: Personal Introduction
1. Personal Introduction
1.1 Psychoanalytic work in East African cities
Summary to 2: Psychoanalytical field work in East African cities.
2. Psychoanalytic Fieldwork in East African Cities
Summary to 3: Drop-in and Home for Street boys
3. Drop-in and Home for Street boys
Summary to 4: Parenthood in East African cities
4. Parenthood in East African Cities
Summary to 5: School system in East African cities and rural areas
5. School systems and school visits in East African cities and rural areas
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6. The Baby and the child without a mother
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7. Babies with their mothers
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8. Sex/Gender differences
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9. The Quran, children’s games, and creative playing in the Sands of El-Alamein
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10. Concepts and treatments for psychosomatic patients in the East African environment 1)
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11. Free ambulatory choice of patients in the big room of female station
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12. What is it that initiates inner und and outer psychic change, what initiates a transformation process?
Biography
Barbara Saegesser is a training analyst with the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and also with IPA. She was president of the commission treating ethical problems in the Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis and has worked in East Africa since 2005, in a wide range of contexts including orphanages, shelters, psychiatric hospitals and on maternity department with many victims of female genital mutilation.
