A Mingling of Ghosts: A Response to Daniel Butler’s “Racialized Bodies and the Violence of the Setting”

Emeritus associate professor Sally Swartz 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. Her 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.
CONTACT Sally Swartz, Ph.D. Sally Swartz Child Guidance Clinic, Chapel Road, Rosebank, Cape Town 7700.