This book's objective is to interrogate theory and practice related to choice theory and reality therapy from an African-centred perspective. Through using an innovative therapeutic approach for intervention and prevention, the author presents a viable alternative for those who wish to work toward healing. As a groundbreaking approach to therapy, this book also includes work with individuals through to entire communities. The writings collectively represent a paradigm shift from traditional non-cultural specific therapy to Africa-centred reality therapy. Index, 163pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

This volume of essays aims to introduce the field of black psychology, places it in within its historical context and assesses its relationship with Western psychology and psychiatry. Topics covered include the results of African-cantered treatments, the psychology of the promotion of condom use in African and Black American populations, problems of identity, personality construction, psychological assaults on the civil rights activists and the psychology of hair. Index, refs, xii, 331pp, USA. CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS, 0890891222

A survey of the existing research into Afrocentric psychology presenting a cogent discourse on selected issues fundamental to this re emerging discipline. The essays delve into the methodology of culture specific research, into the predicament of the African American and into the effects of oppression. refs, notes, xvi, 264pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 0865432937

Nineteenth-century French writers and travellers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. This study traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of colonial expansion to the present, revealing the ways in which psychiatry has been at once a weapon in the arsenal of colonial racism, an innovative branch of medical science, and a mechanism for negotiating the meaning of difference for republican citizenship. Drawing from extensive archival research and fieldwork in France and North Africa, it explores the notion of what French thinkers saw as an inherent mental, intellectual, and behavioural rift marked by the Mediterranean, as well as the idea of the colonies as an experimental space freed from the limitations of metropolitan society and reason. 320pp, USA. CHICAGO U P.

Contributors discuss women's experiences of rape in Rwanda; the management of teenage pregnancy and reproduction in South Africa; the lives of women forcibly displaced from the Great Lakes region; the experience of political violence and torture in Zimbabwe; white mascu-linity in South Africa; and the trauma and grief faced by children living in conditions of poverty and violence in Cape Town. 188pp, UK. LAWRENCE & WISHART.

Sigmund Freud referred to women's sexuality as a 'dark continent' echoing Henry Morton Stanley's phrase referring to Africa. In this study the author brings psychoanalysis, colonialism and women together to form a theory of postcolonial feminism. Using psychoanalysis, Khanna makes visible the psychical strife of colonial and post colonial modernity and argues for the necessity of a postcolonial feminist critique of decolonisation and postcoloniality. Authors referenced include Freud, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Aime Cesaire, Franz Fanon, Albert Memmi and Rene Menil. Index, notes, xiv, 310pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0822330679

A broad and integrative introduction to development psychology for undergraduates. It begins with a discussion of key terms, debates and tensions in the field, provides a theory-driven approach to development and concludes with a focus on priorities in the southern African context. A series of practical thinking tasks case studies, and applied exercises engage and challenge students, and help them relate the subject to everyday life. Various interest boxes, numerous recommended readings, and extensive glossary terms encourage students to read beyond the text and develop a broad and diverse understanding of the discipline. Over 100 photos and 35 illustrations and diagrams animate the text. 440pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRESS, 1919713689

Outlines the main concepts of assessment, and explains and examines the types of measures used to assess human behaviour. Focusing on South Africa, the book investigates how measures are developed and adapted so that they are culturally appropriate and free of bias, and considers the future of assessment. 432pp, SOUTH AFRICA. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Using a range of case studies, the author examine psychodynamic therapy in the community and how power structures built on 'expert' knowledge are used in the context of social services. There is also extensive analysis of the multiple layers of trauma and the complexities of the responses needed. Refs, 124pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL, 0796919968

Using current socio political thought and research, the authors examine topics violence, social and political transition, race and racism and sexualities. Chapters include Race, Racism and the Media, Franz Fanon and Racial Identity in Post Colonial Contexts, Intimacy, Inequality and Gendered Violence, Black Women's Identities, and Street Life and the Construction of Social Problems. Each chapter is illustrated with b/w images and ends with exercises for critical engagement and recommended reading. Index, notes, bib, xii, 420pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JUTA PUBLISHERS, 1919713832

The author transcends Gerald Massey and Carl Jung to offer an alternative to traditional views on symbolic thinking, symbolism and mythology. Notes, bib, index, 160pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

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