Collectively Speaking: The Many Meanings of Naming and Sharing Group Trauma

Sally Swartz, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is a member of the University of Cape Town’s Psychology Department, and is Training Faculty in the clinical psychology master’s program. She is a member of the Cape Town Self Psychoanalytic Psychology Group and offers courses and supervision in the area of relational theory. She has published widely in the fields of colonial psychiatric history, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in South Africa. She is author of Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century (University of Cape Town Press, 2015).
Correspondence should be addressed to Sally Swartz, Ph.D. Child Guidance Clinic, Chapel Road, Rosebank, Cape Town, South Africa, 7700. E-mail: