Psychology

Psychology in society is a journal which aims to critically explore and present ideas on the nature of psychology in apartheid and capitalist society. There is a special emphasis on the theory and practice of psychology in the South African context.

This issue was produced by the CAPE TOWN editorial group.

PSYCHOLOGY IN SOCIETY

NUMBER 11

DECEMBER 1988

DURBAN

CAPE TOWN

JOHANNESBURG

EDITORIAL ADDRESS

PSYCHOLOGY IN SOCIETY

P.O. Box 17285

CONGELLA

4013

South Africa

EDITORIAL GROUPS

David Basckin, Catherine Campbell,

Gill Eagle, Grahame Hayes,

Bonginkosi Nzimande

Jean Benjamin, Cyril Couve, Andrew Dawes, Don Foster, Anna Strebel, Leslie Swartz

Nico Cloete, Kerry Gibson, Lauren Gower, Sam Karani, lan Moll, Rai Turton

Details for subscribers and

contributors appear at the back of the journal.

CONTENTS

Editorial 1

Professionalizat ion of African Healers:

Apparent problems and constraints

Ainanda Kottler 2

A contribution to a theoiy of the dynamic

mechanisims of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in

South African detainees

Kevin Solomons 18

Mental health services in Nicaragua:

Lessons for South Africa

Tammy Shefer 31

Community psychology: Panic or panacea

Mohammed Seedat, Nico Cloete, & Ian Shochet 39

REVIEW ARTICLE

The politics of colonised subjectivity:

A critical review of H A Bulhan’s “Franz Fanon

and the psychology of oppression” (1985)

Cyril Couve 55

BOOK REVIEW

Book Review: “Method and. theory in cross-cultural psychological assessment” by Alexis Retief

Alastair M Bentley 65

Jewkes, R. (1984). The case for South Africa’s expulsion from international psychiatry. UN Centre against apartheid. New York.

Kroese, B. (1987). Behaviour therapy in different settings: Psychological services in Nicaragua. Behavioural Psychotherapy, 26, 3, 3-4.

Lazarus, S. (1986). Training of psychologists for social responsibility in...