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  • Musical elicitation methods : insights from a study with becoming-adolescents referred to group music therapy for aggression 
    Dos Santos, Andeline Julia; Wagner, Claire (Sage, 2018)
    Music is an underutilized resource for research in the social sciences. This article presents examples of musical elicitation methods that were used within a study that explored how adolescents who were referred to group ...
  • Neuropsychological outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting 
    Cassimjee, Nafisa; Couzens, Caroline L.; Smith, Francois Jacobus; Wagner, Claire (OpenJournals Publishing, 2004)
    People with coronary heart disease have recourse to a palliative intervention such as Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG). There is increasing recognition, however, that postoperative cerebral complications and ...
  • Neuropsychological performance in Tourette syndrome after an equine-therapy intervention 
    Cassimjee, Nafisa; Grobler, R.; Wagner, Claire (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2005-12)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • Neuropsychological profiles of adults and older adults with HIV 
    Cassimjee, Nafisa; Motswai, Phenyo K. (Sage, 2017-03)
    The wider availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy has resulted in a concomitant increase in adults aging with HIV and the persistence of milder forms of neuropsychological impairment in this cohort. This ...
  • New meanings of “home” in Souh Africa 
    Marchetti-Mercer, Maria Chiara (University of the Free State - Sasol Library, 2006-08)
    The search for a place we can call "home" and where we feel we can truly belong is a common human experience. This article explores the different meanings attached to the concept of home and how these influence our experience ...
  • No cock needed : exploring the hapto-erotic assemblage of fist-play in gay men’s anal fisting 
    Martin, Jarred H. (Routledge, 2024)
    In this study, I explored how haptic modes of sense, contact, and practice affectively shape, become shaped with/in, the erotic experiences of gay fist-fuckers’ fist-play. Unstructured individual interviews were conducted ...
  • The (non)-Effect of the knowledge era on under-graduate research methodology curricula in the social sciences 
    Wagner, Claire; Maree, David J.F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2005)
    Educational policy reform in South Africa seeks to address the real-life relevance of curricula, and specifically, reformists have turned to proponents of Mode 2 knowledge to inform initiatives for change. This study aimed ...
  • Obstacles to the utilisation of psychological resources in a South African township community 
    Ruane, Ilse (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2010-06)
    Attitudes and beliefs regarding the utilisation of psychological resources were explored among a group of black Africans of 18 years and older. Both males and females participated in focus groups that were conducted at ...
  • Of narratives and nostalgia 
    Duncan, Norman; Stevens, Garth; Sonn, Christopher C. (American Psychological Association, 2012-08)
    This article provides an introduction to and outlines the rationale for the focus of this special issue, Of Narratives and Nostalgia. It therefore provides a broad description of the Apartheid Archive Project, which had ...
  • Of symbolic mortification and undead life : Slavoj Žižek on the death drive 
    Hook, Derek (Edinburgh University Press, 2016-07)
    The work of Slavoj Žižek contains arguably the most conceptually ambitious re-articulation of the Lacanian notion of the death drive. This paper offers an expository thread joining many of the fragmentary depictions of the ...
  • Offender characteristics of the South African male serial rapist : an exploratory study 
    De Wet, Johan Andrew; Labuschagne, G.N.; Chiroro, P.M. (CRIMSA, 2009)
    One of the most potent criminal influences which have spread through modern society is that of serial crime, particularly serial rape of females. In the South African context no research has been conducted on the phenomenon ...
  • On the role of speech In psychoanalysis : revisiting Lacan's function and field 
    Hook, Derek (Sage, 2023-10)
    A number of underutilized concepts in Lacan’s “Function and Field of Language and Speech in Psychoanalysis” are examined with an eye to rendering them accessible and practicable to analysts from outside the Lacanian ...
  • Parental HIV/AIDS and psychological health of younger children in South Africa 
    Asanbe, Comfort; Moleko, Anne Gloria; Visser, M.J. (Maretha Johanna); Thomas, Angela; Makwakwa, Catherine; Salgado, Waleska; Tesnakis, Alexandra (Taylor and Francis (open access), 2016-08)
    OBJECTIVE : We examined several indicators of psychological health in a sample of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) to determine if there were significant differences between those orphaned by AIDS and those orphaned ...
  • Pathways to sexual health communication between adolescent girls and their female caregivers participating in a structured HIV prevention intervention in South Africa 
    Thurman, Tonya R.; Nice, Johanna; Visser, M.J. (Maretha Johanna); Luckett, Brian G. (Elsevier, 2020-09)
    RATIONALE : Interventions that promote sexual health communication between adolescents and their parents or other primary caregivers are an important tool for reducing female adolescents’ behavioral risk. Understanding the ...
  • Performing “responsibility” and “conspiracy” through press statements : the Shane Warne case 
    Human, Lourens H. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2013-06)
    In 2003, the Australian cricketer Shane Warne was suspected and convicted of doping. The purpose of this article was to understand how he tried to resolve the problem/dilemma of being suspected and convicted of doping ...
  • Personality and mental health : an investigation of South African police trainees 
    Du Preez, E.D.; Cassimjee, Nafisa; Lauritz, L.E.; Ghazinour, M.; Richter, J. (Ammons Scientific, 2011-02)
    The relationship between personality and mental health was investigated in one cohort of police trainees at a South African Police Academy (1145 police recruits; 648 men, 497 women). Male trainees reported less somatisation, ...
  • Personality profiles of recreational scuba divers 
    Coetzee, Nicoleen (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2010-12)
    Although classified as an extreme sport, recreational scuba diving differs substantially from other forms of extreme sport. As a result, several researchers have theorized that scuba divers would display unique personality ...
  • Petrified life 
    Hook, Derek (Routledge, 2015-10-12)
    How might we read temporality, that is, the psychical and social experience of time, as an index of the prevailing political and intersubjective impasses of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras? This paper explores three ...
  • Playing sport in the stormy sea of street life 
    Human, Lourens H.; Thomas, Mary (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2008-06)
    Currently, there are many street children in South Africa (SA). They have been robbed from the safe harbour of family life and on a daily basis experience the stormy sea of street life. Society has an obligation to intervene ...
  • Poetic and therapeutic encounters in an adolescent drama group 
    Butler, Elmien; Bakker, Therese Maria (Terri); Viljoen, Gerhard (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2013-03)
    This article reports on a research project that explored the use of drama and movement in facilitating the transformation of narratives of adolescents. Narrative therapy and social constructionism were combined with concepts ...