Connecting with South Africa : cultural communication and understanding / Astrid Berg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Astrid, 1950-

Series:

Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 16.

Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology--South Africa.

Social psychology.

Psychoanalysis and culture--South Africa.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Psychoanalysis and racism--South Africa.

Psychoanalysis and racism.

Infant psychology--South Africa.

Infant psychology.

Developmental psychology--South Africa.

Developmental psychology.

Jungian psychology--South Africa.

Jungian psychology.

Ubuntu (Philosophy).

Group identity--South Africa.

Group identity.

Intercultural communication--South Africa.

Intercultural communication.

South Africa--Social life and customs--21st century.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Available electronically in an open-access, full-text edition from the Texas A&M University Libraries' Digital Repository. Child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Astrid Berg states in her introduction that "South Africa is a microcosm." It is a modern nation, yet many of its inhabitants follow ancient traditions. It is a nation with a colonial

Contents:

Building bridges: infants and parents in a Cape Town community

And what about the infant?

The baby's name was not understood: a case of failed and possibly successful mother-infant psychotherapy

Ancestor reverence

An adolescent rite of passage: what can we learn from African culture?

Ubuntu: an African contribution to the "civilization as a whole".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-05244-4

1-60344-580-3

OCLC:

785778991