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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778936103321

Autore

Berg Astrid <1950->

Titolo

Connecting with South Africa [[electronic resource] ] : cultural communication and understanding / / Astrid Berg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-299-05244-4

1-60344-580-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

302.0968

Soggetti

Social psychology - South Africa

Psychoanalysis and culture - South Africa

Psychoanalysis and racism - South Africa

Infant psychology - South Africa

Developmental psychology - South Africa

Jungian psychology - South Africa

Ubuntu (Philosophy)

Group identity - South Africa

Intercultural communication - South Africa

South Africa Social life and customs 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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".

Sommario/riassunto

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