… This book shows that without a consciousness of ourselves and our reflection in our work,
we lose an important source of information. … Whilst psychodynamic psychotherapy has
been practised more or less traditionally in South Africa for many years (ie, on a one-to-one,
long-term basis), South Africans have also been able, and indeed forced, to interrogate and
utilise psychodynamic ideas in innovative ways. Specific contextual factors related to mental
health in South Africa have led many of those who think and practise psychodynamically to …