SAPI 2023 EDUCATION DAY

LISTEN

*Note:

SAPI Members attend Education Day for free

Date: Saturday 3 September 2023

Time: 09:00 - 17:35

You are invited to join us at SAPI Education Day 2023 where we will explore the many ways we listen when holding a psychoanalytic stance. We are delighted to have Barnaby B Barratt join us as our keynote speaker. Barnaby will present a paper focusing on multimodal listening in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Our panel of psychoanalytic practitioners/thinkers including Brian Watermeyer, Coenie Hattingh, Esther Chunga and Shayleen Peeke will then explore listening across a diverse range of clinical settings and contexts. A number of clinical vignettes will be presented and discussed. Our day will conclude with a plenary session facilitated by Maxine Dennis.

SPEAKER PROFILES:

Barnaby B Barratt is a Training and Supervising Analyst with the South African Psychoanalytic Association and a Supervising Analyst with the Indian Psychoanalytic Society. He is currently working on three books: 1. a re-visioning of human sexuality, 2. a collection of essays on psychoanalytic processes, and 3. a long essay on the prospects for psychoanalysis in its encounters with African wisdom traditions.

Brian Watermeyer trained as a clinical psychologist (M.A. Clin. Psych.) at the University of Cape Town, before completing a doctorate in psychology (D. Phil), focusing on disability studies, at Stellenbosch University. He was first editor of South Africa’s first major text in disability studies, entitled Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda, published in 2006 (HSRC Press). His second book, Towards a Contextual Psychology of Disablism, was published internationally by Routledge in 2013. His most recent book is The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South (New York: Palgrave), edited by B. Watermeyer, J. McKenzie and L. Swartz (2019). Brian has an extensive list of international journal publications, book chapters, and media appearances as a disability scholar and activist. He has taught on a host of postgraduate programmes at Stellenbosch University, UCT and UWC, in disability studies, clinical psychology, general psychology, medicine and rehabilitation science.

Coenie Hattingh is a neuropsychologist in private practice in the Southern suburbs of Cape Town. His clinical work is organised around the diagnosis of rare and atypical neurodegenerative illness, and working psychotherapeutically with these patients and their families. As of September this year, Coenie is a junior candidate with SAPA. 

Esther Chunga is a psychologist, psychoanalytic candidate and is the Executive Director at The Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust. Esther’s deep involvement in the organisation draws from her understanding and keen interest in psychoanalytic thinking and practice, and how this is made use of in developing programmes and interventions which respond to the needs of some of the most dire and deprived contexts in South Africa. Esther feels strongly about advocating for low cost models and making mental health care and support accessible for the broader African population.

Shayleen Peeke joined the first infant observation group in Johannesburg thirty years ago. This beginning was facilitated by Zelma Joffe and Sheila Miller. Her involvement with infant observation has been continuous since then as a facilitator and teacher in community settings and with those interested in developing their work with children. Through the IPCP, infant observation has been offered as a foundation for the Therapeutic Communication course with children. Shayleen trained as a Social Worker and Clinical Psychologist at the University of the Witwatersrand. She works in private practice.

Bhamini Rugnathji is a psychologist and a psychoanalytic candidate in private practice. She is based in the Southern suburbs of Cape Town. She is originally from Zimbabwe having received her undergraduate and honours in psychology from the University of Zimbabwe, after which she completed her Masters at Rhodes/Fort Hare. Bhamini has an interest in how one works psychoanalytically in the South African/African context. She currently sits on the SAPI board, and

is a water colourist in her spare time.

Charity Mkone is a clinical psychologist and lecturer at the University of Johannesburg where she is involved in the training of clinical psychology Masters Students. Charity is currently a PhD candidate in the Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Practice PhD programme at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is pursuing a PhD titled “Navigating intersubjectivity: black female therapists’ experiences of psychotherapy with Black female patients”. In addition to her academic pursuits, Charity has a small private practice in Parktown North, Johannesburg. Her broad research and clinical interests lie in psychoanalytic theory and practice and how it intersects with social identity in the South African context.

Mary-Anne Tandy returned to Johannesburg, South Africa in January 2013. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic, London, from which she received a masters degree in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. After her training she worked for the NHS as a member of the Child and Family Consultation Service in Hackney, East London. As part of a multi-disciplinary community team, she saw children with a range of mental health difficulties and complex social needs. For several years she was a tutor and work discussion leader on the M7 Infant Observation Course at the Tavistock Clinic. Since being in South Africa she has qualified as an adult and child analyst. She currently works at Ububele as a supervisor to their interns. She is also a member of the IPCP with an interest in developing child psychotherapy in South Africa. She has a private practice in Parkview.

Conferences Committee Members

Glynis Ponton

Jonathan Percale

Ntshediseng Tlooko

Nokulunga Nene-Mokgele

Ronald Davies

Vanessa Dantas e Sá

6 CPD points have been awarded for this event.

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