“Death, envy and madness: Uncovering our psychotic core”

Brief bio: Emeritus Associate Professor Sally Swartz (University of Cape Town) is a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has a particular interest in the field of relational psychoanalytic theory. Recent papers have had decolonisation of mind as a central focus. She has published widely in the areas of history of psychiatry, colonialism and relational psychoanalytic practice. She is the author of three monographs. Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century was published in 2015, and Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest in 2019. In 2022 she published Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction.

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