“Trauma and its impact on superego function: an examination of how trauma undermines internal good objects in both individuals and groups”

ABOUT

Sue Levy is a South African Training Analyst living and working in Johannesburg. She has a specialist background in Trauma. She worked in London for 12 years, first at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and then heading up the Trauma Unit at Chelsea Westminster Hospital. She was an external lecturer on Trauma at the Tavistock Clinic in London and is the co-editor with Alessandra Lemma of the text The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytical Reflections on Trauma.

In South Africa she heads up the Johannesburg Low Fee Service of the sister organisations - the South African Psychoanalytical Association (SAPA) and the South African Psychoanalytical Association (SAPI) based at UBUBELE a Johannesburg African Psychotherapy Centre. She teaches and supervises Psychoanalysis and also Applied Psychoanalysis. She is actively engaged in the work of transformation in SAPA, in particular in relation to race and racialisation in post-apartheid South Africa.