Giving In, Giving Up, and Being Blown to Smithereens: A Discussion of “‘When Reparation Is Felt to Be Impossible’: Persecutory Guilt and Breakdowns in Thinking and Dialogue about Race”

Emeritus Associate Professor Sally Swartz, Ph.D., participates in the University of Cape Town’s training faculty in the clinical psychology program, and is a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Cape Town, South Africa. She has a particular interest in the fields of colonial psychiatric history, decolonization and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in South Africa. Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century was published by UCT Press in 2015, and Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest by Routledge in 2019.
Correspondence should be addressed to Sally Swartz, Ph.D., Child Guidance Clinic, University of Cape Town, 16 Kromboom Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700, South Africa. E-mail: