As is well known, in recent years some of the most provocatively challenging and intellectually intriguing developments have come from the arena of quantum physics. These developments have stimulated many thinkers to consider what quantum reality means for everyday...
It seems that every few decades the dominant paradigms in social theory start to crumble and are replaced by paradigms that supposedly correct for the deficiencies of the former. Then the new paradigms are revealed to be insufficient and are themselves displaced....
Sometime in 2015, the government of Gauteng Province (which surrounds Johannesburg and is home to over 25% of South Africa’s population) decided to save money by deinstitutionalizing a substantial portion of the inpatient psychiatric population in its care. As...
After forty five years of psychoanalytic practice, it is not a particularly easy task to pick out ten books that I believe are singularly important for anyone wishing to understand psychoanalysis ‑‑‑ as a theory of the mind, a cultural critique and a therapeutic practice. I will inevitably leave out some essential texts out (e.g., the works of Sándor Ferenczi and Otto Fenichel). I read many of the books I have listed many years ago. Yet they were formative of my thinking in a foundational way.
I’ll cut to the chase. My sense is that most therapists and counselors accept without question their clients’ particular goals, whether they be to heal from trauma, overcome depression, improve a relationship, become more productive, or work through a loss. (Of...
As a psychoanalyst, I often try to understand psychosocial phenomena from a psychoanalytic perspective. For this brief overview, I will discuss the current state of our socio/political climate from a developmental viewpoint as well as from the perspective of current...
Published in South Africa’s Mail and Guardian, January 5th to 11th, 2018, page 15. South Africa is a worldwide frontrunner in rape and domestic violence. The international news is now also focused on powerful men’s mistreatment of women in the USA (Donald Trump, Bill...
The writings of the late Paulo Freire, most notably his Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which was first published in Portuguese in 1968, continue today to serve as major references on education for critical thinking and literacy, as well as the methods of dialogical...
Exactly fifty years ago, in July 1967, a group of scholars and activists gathered in London at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm for a now famous Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation. It was a powerful moment, just a year before the worldwide revolutionary...
With permission of Professor Yusef Waghid of the University of Stellenbosch, the Parkmore Institute republishes here his commentary that appeared in the 9th June 2017 issue of South Africa’s Mail and Guardian. Although his focus is the tertiary education system in...
