Bridging the divide: An exploration of Jungian psychoanalysis and African healing practices and implications for a south African psychology

dc.contributor.advisorNaidoo, Pamela
dc.contributor.authorMarks, Lynne
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-08T12:35:21Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-19T08:30:44Z
dc.date.available2021-09-08T12:35:21Z
dc.date.available2024-04-19T08:30:44Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionPhilosophiae Doctor - PhDen_US
dc.description.abstractThere has recently been a lot of interest in the role of traditional healers in various cultures. This study explores the merit of an integrative approach between western based psychological practices in South Africa and what is known as traditional African healing. In order to do so, this study aims to present the epistemological views of Jungian analytical theory and African healing practices. The purpose is to ascertain whether or not there are sufficient commonalities to allow for relatedness between these two worlds. Jungian analytical thought and practice is reviewed with particular reference to the collective unconscious, archetypes, complexes and dream interpretation as a pathway to individuation. The traditional healer's pervasive role within the context of the African cosmology is explored with particular reference to the understanding of the role of the ancestors, the causes of illnesses and the use of dreams, symbols and rituals in the healing process. The importance of the sacred in both healing modalities is presented. The study employs a qualitative research design with the phenomenological approach as an example of one of the traditions of this design. Interviews with five traditional healers comprise the data for the study. The data is analyzed according to the procedure recommended by Moustakas (1994). The interviews focused specifically on eliciting information regarding the calling and the training process of the traditional healer. It is proposed that the two approaches to healing investigated in this study present possible mechanisms to bridge the divide between the westernized approaches to healing and that of the non-technical practitioner. It is further proposed that this will have implications for the broadening of the training and implementation of psychology in South Africa today.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/12262
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectJungian analysisen_US
dc.subjectTraditional healeren_US
dc.subjectDreamsen_US
dc.subjectAncestorsen_US
dc.subjectArchetypesen_US
dc.subjectCollective Unconsciousen_US
dc.subjectSymbolen_US
dc.subjectRitualen_US
dc.subjectIndividuationen_US
dc.subjectPhenomenologyen_US
dc.titleBridging the divide: An exploration of Jungian psychoanalysis and African healing practices and implications for a south African psychologyen_US

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