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A resource for South African Psychologists and Clients |
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Our directory of South African psychologists includes comprehenive information about:
The search form will allow you to search for a South African psychologist by name, speciality, languages spoken and address. So if you are looking for a marriage therapist in Cape Town or a psychologist specialising in depression and anxiety you can enter this into the search form. Search for a psychologist here.
Are you a South African psychologist and would like to be listed in our directory of South African psychologists? The directory of South African Psychologists is open to all person's who's Health Professions Council Registration permits the practice of counselling and/or psychotherapy. This includes Clinical social workers, Registered counselllors, Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists and Educational Psychologists. Click here to find out more. |
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Effective management of stress and burnout
Dr Adelbert Scholtz, Counselling Psychologist in Belville Cape Town shares his view on stress and burnout. He looks at sources of stress, causes of burnout and provides techniques for managing burnout. Visit Dr Adelbert Scholtz's profile or read Effective management of stress and burnout here.
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Metaphors in psychotherapy
Dr Aharon Segal, Clinical Psychologist in Craighall Park Johannesburg describes the use of metaphor in psychotherapy. This article defines metaphor, explores it's use as a tool of indirect communication and the potential for the positive use of metaphor in psychotherapeutic relationships. View Dr Segal's profile here or read Metaphor in psychotherapy. (And there's no prize for getting the visual metaphor of the accompanying picture)
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Cholesterol levels linked to depression in the elderly
Betty Doyle from the blog Depression Pills.net draws our attention to the link between diet and mental health by reporting on research linking high levels of cholesterol with depression in the elderly. Read Cholesterol linked to depression in the elderly here.
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The Return of the King :Psychological work with men
Jamie Elkon is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Cape Town. Here's an excerpt from his latest article about shadow work with men. "As men we are particularly prone to the construction of fragile (though often quite stupendous) narcissistic defenses, which wait in ambush for unsuspecting travelers upon our life’s journey. Whether conscious or not, we maneuver others onto the traps we have laid and when they snap shut, we puff up with righteous indignation at the injustice of it all, thereby inexorably repeating and reinforcing the alienation with ourselves and particularly with those we claim to love." Read the full article here.
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Mirror, Mirror on the wall, whose body is the most beautiful of them all? Body image and self esteem
Liane Lurie is a Clinical Psychologist in Johannesburg's northern suburbs. She writes for psychotherapy.co.za about our relationship with our bodies Read the full article here. |
In no small way a culture propagates itself through it's stories. Film is arguably the most popular form of modern day story telling. For this reason popular movies are an integral part of the way we think about ourselves and our lives. The trials and joys, highs and lows resolutions and disillusionments of the characeters on the silver screen indeed enter our consciousness and become a part of what we regard as the right, the good and the true.
Clinical Psychologist, Dr Jana Lazarus and her counsellor colleague Miranda Wannenburgh from Change Matters, a consultancy for personal change in Cape Town went to the movies recently and here they present their thoughts on three films in a series of three entertaining and thought provoking articles.
The movie "The Titanic" and in particular the story of Rose, contain strong metaphors for people who are recovering from trauma and its related problem, addiction. This article unpacks some of the symbols the film provides. Watch it to feel the emotional impact of these truths! The movie is very touching in universal ways. Read the full article here.
I love the film The Matrix, because of the clarity and simplicity of its symbols. I find it a useful way to think about how psychotherapy can bring about transformation. The change process is, crucially, a shift in perception, stemming from a serious willingness to enquire – and leads to a revolution in behaviour, and in one’s entire experience of the world and self. Read the full article here
We conclude our movie series with a short rumination on The Bridges Of Madison County - a film that is, essentially, a long and beautiful rumination on a single theme. It is love, you might say, this is a romance – it is indeed, but ironically enough, it is not about the discovery of another person, but of the sustaining self. Read the full article here
All three articles in this Going to the movies series are courtesy of Jana Lazarus and Miranda Wannenburgh from the people development consultancy Change Matters. Visit their website (http://www.changematters.co.za) to find out more about their work.
What else is new on psychotherapy.co.za?
by Sue Randall.
The answer to the question ‘What is a person?’ depends largely on who you ask. In this article we will have a look at some of the answers which psychologists might give. There are many different branches within psychology, and people will answer differently based on what school of thought they follow. We will look at ideas from four of the main branches of psychological thinking, the psychoanalytic school, the humanists, systems theory and the cognitive behavioural approach, This is a good article for the layman interested to find out a little more about the theoretical assumptions from which many psychologists proceed. Read the full article.
by Yaro Starak
YARO STARAK MSW trained as a Psychologist, Social Work Educator, and Gestalt Therapist in Canada. He established and directed the Brisbane Gestalt Centre in 1979. He is a visiting trainer for several Australian Gestalt Therapy Institutes, as well as in Europe and Canada and worked for many years lecturing in the School of Social Work & Social Policy at the University of Queensland. In this offering Yaro draws on chaos theory, quantum psychology and the shamanic tradition and writes about eldership development. Read the full article
Other notable articles
An informative article detailing the differences in training and expertise of psychiatrists and psychologists. Read the full article
A brief introduction for people wanting to take their relationship to a couple counsellor or a marriage therapist. Read more
Dr Coert Mommsen writes about metaphors and their use in psychology. Read the full article
Recently qualified counselling psychologist Natasha Govender describes her understanding of the psychodynamic perspective of psychotherapy and her journey towards this viewpoint. Read the full article
Other resources for South African psychologists and the public on this site
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Posted By DavidvdW
- 2010 April 18
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Book Review: Staring at the sun: Overcoming the Terror of Deathby Irvin Yalom A courageous look into the abyss of death, and a handbook for facing the inevitability of life. Click the Book to purchaseMaster therapist Irvin Yalom's latest offering has attracted high praise. “Irv Yalom has written a beautiful and courageous book—a book that comforts even as it explores and confronts death. Yalom helps us understand that we must all come to grips with a paradox: The physicality of death destroys us; the idea of death saves us.” — George Valliant, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School “One of America’s finest therapists guides us through one of life’s most challenging tasks in this profoundly helpful book. It will benefit anyone who reads it.” — Rabbi Harold Kushner, author, When Bad Things Happen to Good People “Staring at the Sun is neither textbook nor mere self-help. Philosophical it is, but never arid with theory. Its lively chapters are populated with patients whose raw angst Yalom refines into vignettes that are always enlightening and often quite moving. “Death has a long reach,” he writes, “with an impact that is often concealed.” He calls anxiety about death the mother of religion, but says his own work is “rooted in a secular, existential worldview that rejects supernatural beliefs.” With convincing examples, he argues that awareness of mortality “may serve as an awakening experience, a profoundly useful catalyst for major life changes.” — Washington Post Sunday, February 24, 2008
Click here to buy Staring at the Sun.
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Posted By DavidvdW
- 2009 August 06
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NEW THERAPIST MAGAZINE SPECIAL OFFER
Psychotherapy.co.za visitors are offered a generous 15% discount on an annual (6 edition) subscription to New Therapist. This quality publication is aimed at the professional audience and from personal experience I can say that it will bring a breath of fresh air into your professional reading. It's usually a steal at R380 for the print edition and R240 to have it delivered to your email in PDF format. After the generous 15% discount you'll pay R320 for the print edition or R200 for the electronic version. For less than one session's fee you'll get 6 quality professional magazines.
What's more you can add two back issues of New Therapist to your order at no charge. That gives you three editions immediately.
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Posted By DavidvdW
- 2009 March 18
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"By psychology's 'mortal sin', I mean the sin of deadening, the dead feeling that comes over us when we read professional psychology, hear its language, the voice with which it drones, the bulk of its textbooks, the serious pretensions and bearded proclamations of new 'findings' that could hardly be more banal, its soothing anodynes for self-help, its decor, its fashion, its departmental meetings, and its tranquilizing consulting rooms, those stagnant waters where the soul goes to be restored, a last refuge of white-bread culture, stale, crustless, but ever spongy with rebounding hope . . . Whatever romance might still be left appears in the desire to help suffering people by entering a 'training program' for therapists. But if helping is the calling, then better apprentice with Mother Teresa than to expect a psychology without soul, beauty, or pleasure to train you to help the suffering. Psychology has no self-help manual for its own affliction."
~ James Hillman, The Soul's Code
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Posted By DavidvdW
- 2009 March 11
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 GOOD READING : Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people--from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome who are hypermusical from birth; from people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds--for everything but music.
Our exquisite sensitivity to music can sometimes go wrong: Sacks explores how catchy tunes can subject us to hours of mental replay, and how a surprising number of people acquire nonstop musical hallucinations that assault them night and day. Yet far more frequently, music goes right: Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson's disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer's or amnesia.
Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why. (from www.oliversacks.com)
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